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The musings of a liberal, feminist dyke who finds herself in the most unlikely of situations.....
Friday, May 28, 2004
Quotes
Ok, I'm bored today at work. Kim's off on Fridays. Ethan's not here, and my girl can't e-mail at work any longer. What's up with that?! They're like my lifeline to the outside world when I'm inside this insane bubble. Aaaaaahhh...Sooooo I'm going to attempt to entertain myself for awhile. I collect quotes and I thought I'd share some of my favorites:
FEMINISM
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat..." -Rebecca West
ON WAR
"You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news."-Adlai E. Stevenson
"The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere."-John Mortimer
"In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another."-J. William Fulbright
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, but others judge us by what we have already done."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."-Martin Luther King, 1963
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."-Gen. Omar Bradley
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war."-Herbert Hoover
"War's a profanity, because let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can."-Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Everything, everything in war is barbaric. . . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."-Ellen Key
"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."-Gary Wills
"War is, at first, the hope one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."-Karl Kraus
ON THE WAR IN IRAQ
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."-Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, 1918
"How dare Senator Daschle criticize President Bush while we are fighting our war on terrorism, especially when we have troops in the field?"-Trent Lott (R)
(Daschle's)"divisive comments have the effect of giving aid and comfort to our enemies by allowing them to exploit divisions in our country."-Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA
"Your tactics only aid terrorists -- for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends"-John Ashcroft
"Those who criticize the administration are aiding and giving comfort to the enemy"-John Ashcroft
"Once the war against Saddam Hussein begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if you can't do that, just shut up. Americans, and indeed our foreign allies who actively work against our military once the war is underway, will be considered enemies of the state by me."- Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, 2/26/03
LIBERALISM
"Somebody came along and said 'liberal' means 'soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on defense and we're gonna tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn't have to go to work if they don't want to. And instead of saying, 'Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, Leave it to Beaver trip back to the '50s, we cowered in the corner and said, 'Please don't hurt me.'"-The West Wing
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."-John Kenneth Galbraith
"As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."-George Washington
"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people, tempered by fear."-William Gladstone
"Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right by which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet."-Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."-
John Stuart Mill
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. "-H.L. Mencken
FREEDOM
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning."-Frederick Douglass
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."-James Madison
"It is not the fact of liberty but in the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."-Dorothy Thompson
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be for religion-except for the sect that can win political power."-Robert H. Jackson
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."-Abraham Lincoln
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."-E.M. Forster
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."-Charles Evans Hughes
"...conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."-John F. Kennedy
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."-Rosa Luxemburg
PATRIOTISM
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."-George Bernard Shaw
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."-Edmund Burke
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin. "-Robert Browning
CIVIL RIGHTS/GAY RIGHTS
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority is wrong."-Eugene V. Debs
"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed."-Bertrand Russell
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."-George Bernard Shaw
"The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties."-Abraham Myerson
"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its citizens."-Pearl S. Buck
"Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."-Anton Chekhov
MY PERSONAL CREED
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost
MY FAVORITE QUOTE TODAY
"George Bush has the look about him of someone who might sit up and yip for a doggie yummie." -Columnist Mike Royko
FEMINISM
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat..." -Rebecca West
ON WAR
"You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news."-Adlai E. Stevenson
"The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere."-John Mortimer
"In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another."-J. William Fulbright
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, but others judge us by what we have already done."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."-Martin Luther King, 1963
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."-Gen. Omar Bradley
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war."-Herbert Hoover
"War's a profanity, because let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can."-Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Everything, everything in war is barbaric. . . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."-Ellen Key
"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."-Gary Wills
"War is, at first, the hope one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."-Karl Kraus
ON THE WAR IN IRAQ
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."-Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, 1918
"How dare Senator Daschle criticize President Bush while we are fighting our war on terrorism, especially when we have troops in the field?"-Trent Lott (R)
(Daschle's)"divisive comments have the effect of giving aid and comfort to our enemies by allowing them to exploit divisions in our country."-Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA
"Your tactics only aid terrorists -- for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends"-John Ashcroft
"Those who criticize the administration are aiding and giving comfort to the enemy"-John Ashcroft
"Once the war against Saddam Hussein begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if you can't do that, just shut up. Americans, and indeed our foreign allies who actively work against our military once the war is underway, will be considered enemies of the state by me."- Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, 2/26/03
LIBERALISM
"Somebody came along and said 'liberal' means 'soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on defense and we're gonna tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn't have to go to work if they don't want to. And instead of saying, 'Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, Leave it to Beaver trip back to the '50s, we cowered in the corner and said, 'Please don't hurt me.'"-The West Wing
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."-John Kenneth Galbraith
"As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."-George Washington
"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people, tempered by fear."-William Gladstone
"Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right by which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet."-Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."-
John Stuart Mill
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. "-H.L. Mencken
FREEDOM
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning."-Frederick Douglass
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."-James Madison
"It is not the fact of liberty but in the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."-Dorothy Thompson
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be for religion-except for the sect that can win political power."-Robert H. Jackson
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."-Abraham Lincoln
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."-E.M. Forster
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."-Charles Evans Hughes
"...conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."-John F. Kennedy
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."-Rosa Luxemburg
PATRIOTISM
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."-George Bernard Shaw
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."-Edmund Burke
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin. "-Robert Browning
CIVIL RIGHTS/GAY RIGHTS
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority is wrong."-Eugene V. Debs
"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed."-Bertrand Russell
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."-George Bernard Shaw
"The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties."-Abraham Myerson
"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its citizens."-Pearl S. Buck
"Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."-Anton Chekhov
MY PERSONAL CREED
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost
MY FAVORITE QUOTE TODAY
"George Bush has the look about him of someone who might sit up and yip for a doggie yummie." -Columnist Mike Royko