OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government ...to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. Joseph Sobran

Originally Posted by Trent Reznor the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his f++++++ arm through just to push you down just to hold you down

I think, theist or not, this perfectly sums up some of the horrific things we see -- from Fukushima to 911.

What you habitually think, largely determines what you will become. - Bruce Lee

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can. C.C. Colton, Lacon [1820]

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth stupid fumbling--oh, he conceded that man, a social animal, could not avoid having government, any more than an individual man could escape his lifelong bondage to his bowels. But Harshaw did not have to like it. Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! Robert A. Heinlen, Stranger in a Strange Land [1961]

As children we led three lives; at home we led a strict life, in our own neighborhood-where we were known-we led a different life, but where nobody knew us we let all the mischief within us hang right on out!!-Cousin Lucky

Hi,

Poor actions deserve poor results! - 'Me'

"As they say 'live and let live': but if it does harm then bring things to notice and correct or rectify." - My own mangled thought

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Jimi Hendrix

Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American in excelsis.-Paul Thomas New Zealand Herald

Originally Posted by onebuck Hi, Poor actions deserve poor results! - 'Me' ...

...but don't always get them...

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

Accomplishment is something you cannot buy. If you have a chance and dont make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth. It is not what you do in baseball or sports, but how hard you try. Win or lose, I try my best.-Roberto Clemente

Be the person your dog thinks you are

"All power in human hands is liable to be abused." -- James Madison, December 18, 1825

My addendum to his statement, "Not liable to be, will be, by the first opportunist with a plan."

In 2004 I warned friends about the Patriot Act, they did not listen. They justified it, whined, etc. Snowden proved that to be correct, though I seriously doubt his claim to an altruistic motive.

Today I warn people about their groupthink, corporate love, and fanboyism and the numerous invasions of privacy without public objection to corporations stomping on consumer rights wanton. Why? They will eventually abuse it.

Now, just in case you happen to be thinking... "But, the terrorists!" Read the following quote, I'll let you figure out who wrote it on your own, lest I be accused of a common misnomer that has no basis in fact whatsoever.

The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category

If you have the time and the interest about 9/11 you might want to check out " follow the money"!!

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09/...ce28-156523949

Then And Now photos:
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/09/4164...m_medium=owned

All I Got out of that video was carpetbaggers hijacking a terrorist act for profit.
It does not negate the fact that those folks don't like us and would like us dead.

Follow the money? Errr. There are lots of paths on that rationale. Not just a usa carpetbagger path either. Drugs, Antiquities, OIL and GAS profits, to infinity and beyond. All over the world.

Makes me grin a bit on how some who thought they were mean smart. Got played by those with money and political smarts. Their bag of grudges got hijacked. Now they are all back of the bus and stuff.

Took the video with a grain of salt here.

So.

He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.

@ post 507

I am not going to google search that saying. But my best guess a Nazi said that.