Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue.  It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

~Oscar Wilde

‎Watching the Republicans and the Democrats bicker over the U.S. debt is like watching two drunks argue over a bar bill on the Titanic.

~Marshall Trimble

"Newt is not astute."

- Alan Grayson 

"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. "  Chief Sealth (1780-1866)

"You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men,
like you.... A race that gives suck to the maimed and
the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history
and will have it."

 - Cormac McCarthy, Child of God 

 mem_313 wrote: 


This is a very profound quote...  I like it a lot...

 

"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American  (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
~ William T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889.

"yup"

MB

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

John W. Gardner

 Romulus wrote: 
actually, I don't believe that there's a difference.

 Romulus wrote: 
Seems like it's always been that way.

It is now easier to kill a million people, than it is to control them.
Zbigniew Brzezinski 2010

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
-Thomas Jefferson

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. — Hermann Hesse


...felt inspired to get back on topic for a moment

 Romulus wrote:
 
Wow. Had not heard that. It would be funny if it were not so sad.

 cc_rider wrote: 
Operation Iraqi Liberation

They had to change that. Not kidding.

 black321 wrote: 
Looting. AKA as massive debt passed on to civilians, of both countries involved. Good thing central banks are there to Create "money" that never existed to enslave us!

 black321 wrote:
 
That's what we were SUPPOSED to do in Iraq, right? Cheney's buddies were gonna get those oil fields pumping, post haste, to pay for the 'liberation'. Hmmm...