GREAT QUOTES / 16

Another installment of quotes gleaned from the net. It never fails to amaze me at the number of quotes that are scattered around. Let these make you think of the people who uttered them and wonder about the context that they were originally used.............ENJOY..............PEACE...............Scott



If you dream alone, it's just a dream. If you dream together, it's
reality. - Brazilian folk song


"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
-- William T. Sherman


The pricks are on the outside - the late Rep. Mo Udall explaining how a
cactus differs from a caucus


Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their
reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who
are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the
world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow
their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates,
and bear the consequences. -- Susan B. Anthony,


"Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of
appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for
policies that are really intended to crush them."--Noam Chomsky


"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margret Thatcher


"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin


When I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a social
disgrace. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement; to get
drunk was a victory - Brendan Behan


As the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence
to which it owes its very existence. -Mohandas K. Gandhi


"Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Pericles, 430 BC


Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines - Steven
Wright


If there's one thing that George Bush has done that we should never
forget, it's that for us and for our children, he has shattered the myth
of white supremacy once and for all - Rep.Charles Rangel


"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - Dan Quayle


"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by one of your inferiors." - Plato


Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus


All laws not based on wisdom are a danger to the state - Inscription in
stone on the appellate court building of the state of New York


As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are
used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by
destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people
will solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal


I'm gonna cut the soles off my shoes,
sit in a tree, and learn to play the flute.
-- Firesign Theatre


"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin


"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." - Ashleigh Brilliant


Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art - Susan Sontag