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"Art is the proper task of life." --Friedrich W. Nietzsche "Ignorance is only a sin when embraced." -- Nick Delonas "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." --Alexander Tytler "A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker." --H.L. Mencken "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." --Tacitus "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "The dignity of man is in free choice." --Max Frisch "Life is short, death eternal. Fortunately, time passes quickly when dead." --Nick Delonas "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." --Mignon McLaughlin "In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks." --Chris Patten "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle "What does not kill us often makes us wish we were dead." - James Mohen "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." --H.L. Mencken "The universe existed without a glimmer of consciousness for an eternity, but no one remembers it." -- Mahaviscera "Mozart is too easy for beginners and too difficult for artists." - Artur Schnabel "The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice." --H.G. Wells "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." --Irving Kristol "Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state." --John Dewey "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." --H.L. Mencken "The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore." --H.L. Mencken "It's hard to keep your underwear clean when you've got more than one ass hole." -- Glen Greene "It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts." --H.L. Mencken "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt." --Mahatma Gandhi "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." --Mahatma Gandhi "In music, the passions enjoy themselves" --Friedrich W. Nietzsche "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." --Thomas Jefferson "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." --H.L. Mencken "I always look forward to the opportunity to chop off more heads so that I can earn more money." -- Saeed Al Sayyaf, Saudi Arabia's state executioner "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken "I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education." --Thomas Jefferson "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." --Judge Gideon J. Tucker "A great many laws in a country, like many physicians, is a sign of malady." --Voltaire "Oddly enough, a house of cards is more stable on a foundation of sand." -- Nick Delonas "Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic." --Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn "It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." --Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." --Hubert H. Humphrey "If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." --John Stuart Mill "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." -- Humphrey Bogart "We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate." --Kin Hubbard "Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." --John V. Lindsay "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended." --Plato "Fill your days with the dull. You'll seem to live much longer and when the end finally comes, you won't mind so much." -- Mahaviscera "The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson "Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves." --Thomas Jefferson "There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." --John Adams "Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency." --H.L. Mencken "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." --Friedrich W. Nietzsche "Even if you don't fully understand what's going on, there's much to be said for simply giving it a go." -- Nick Delonas "Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political." --Ignazio Silone "If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." --Henry David Thoreau "Those constipated all week clog toilets on the weekend." -- Nick Delonas "As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman." --Adam Michnik "Never get into a stinking contest with a skunk. You just end up smelling like a skunk and the skunk smells the same as when you started." -- author unknown "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." --Laurens van der Post "If life were ever lasting and free will real, all would eventually choose death." -- Mahaviscera "Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture." --Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov "It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny." --James Fenimore Cooper "Violence is the last resource of the incompetent." --Salvor Hardin "Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires." --Friedrich Nietzsche "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." --Henry de Jouvenel "You're better off dead than in a life without bread." -- Nick Delonas (on the Atkins diet) "Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion." --Mahatma Gandhi "Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual." --Ayn Rand "The inevitable consequence of democracy is a tyranny of stupidity." -- Nick Delonas "It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good." --Marcus Tullius Cicero "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." --Friedrich W. Nietzsche "He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience." --Samuel Johnson "Never, ever vote for a lawyer." -- Nick Delonas "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" --Benjamin Franklin "Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology." --Friedrich W. Nietzsche "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." --Edmund Burke "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." --Federalist Papers "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." --H.L. Mencken "That government is best which governs least." --Henry David Thoreau "The problem with ice is that it is always frozen." -- Nick Delonas |
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