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

dont know what you yanks are complaining aboot
we dont get "stickers"

Self-interest is that indomitable individualistic force within us that urges us on to progress and discovery, but at the same time disposes us to monopolize our discoveries. Competition is that no less indomitable humanitarian force that wrests progress, as fast as it is made, from the hands of the individual and places it at the disposal of all mankind.– Frederic Bastiat

But what about the beautiful little babies killed by United States bombs since Trump became president? Is Trump not concerned about those children because they were killed by his missiles, and not Assad’s chemical weapons?– Chris Ernesto, "Trump Has Killed Beautiful Babies in Four Countries" [April 2017]

http://original.antiwar.com/chris_er...untries/print/

god, i wish someone would shoot that clown already...

(forum software requires text here)

Oppression is designed to compel obedience and submission to authority. Those who voluntarily put themselves in that state - by believing that their institutions of authority are just and good and should be followed rather than subverted - render oppression redundant, unnecessary. Of course people who think and behave this way encounter no oppression. That is their reward for good, submissive behavior. They are left alone by institutions of power because they comport with the desired behavior of complacency and obedience without further compulsion. But the fact that good, obedient citizens do not themselves perceive oppression does not mean that oppression does not exist.-Glenn Greenwald

Stop being so obedient. Stop being so compliant and herdlike. Stop kowtowing to anyone and everyone in uniform. Stop perpetuating the false notion that those who work for the government-the president, Congress, the courts, the military, the police-are in any way superior to the rest of the citizenry. Stop playing politics with your principles. Stop making excuses for the governments growing list of human rights abuses and crimes. Stop turning a blind eye to the governments corruption and wrongdoing and theft and murder. Stop tolerating ineptitude and incompetence by government workers. Stop allowing the government to treat you like a second-class citizen. Stop censoring what you say and do for fear that you might be labeled an extremist or worse, unpatriotic. Stop sitting silently on the sidelines while the police state kills, plunders and maims your fellow citizens. Stop being a slave.-John W. Whitehead

Like Mexico, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body.
But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective.
For us, now, it is much more basic than that.
It is about family.
http://irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/a...r/cellucci.pdf

“Policing is broken... It has evolved as a paramilitary, bureaucratic, organizational arrangement that distances police officers from the communities they’ve been sworn to protect and serve. When we have shooting after shooting after shooting that most people would define as at least questionable, it’s time to look, not just at a few bad apples, but the barrel. And I’m convinced that it is the barrel that is rotted.”— Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief

The president now wields the power to assassinate Americans and to arrest Americans, incarcerate them, and torture them, all without any judicial accountability, due process of law, and trial by jury. Those are powers that traditionally are wielded by totalitarian regimes. Yet, the president of the United States is democratically elected.

A free society necessarily depends on the limitation of power of whoever happens to hold public office. That was what the United States Constitution was all about - to limit the power of those holding federal office.-Jacob G. Hornberger

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.– H.L. Mencken

The president now wields the power to assassinate Americans and to arrest Americans, incarcerate them, and torture them, all without any judicial accountability, due process of law, and trial by jury

If he used them he wouldn't last very long.

Sorry If this is a repeat, I haven't read the whole thread:

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me! -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter)

Roman Stoicism had been developed in times of despotism as a philosophy of lonely and courageous souls who had recognized the redeeming power of philosophical reason in all the moral and social purposes of life. Philosophy as a way of life makes men free. It is the last ditch stand of liberty in a world of servitude.– Albert Soloman

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-Aldous Huxley

It is not important who directly advocates a particular policy, since under the present noble system of capitalism any money-bag can always “hire”, buy or enlist any number of lawyers, writers and even parliamentary deputies, professors, parsons and the like to defend any views. ...Yes, indeed! In politics it is not so important who directly advocates particular views. What is important is who stands to gain from these views, proposals, measures.-Lenin