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Comment by DeSwiss on November 1, 2010 at 1:11am

"In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

Comment by D R Hosie on October 30, 2010 at 4:52am

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Comment by Claudia Mercedes Mazzucco on October 29, 2010 at 4:17pm

“Religion’s defenders often show a preference for defining atheism as the strongest claim to know that no god exists. If atheists cannot justify such a claim (and they can’t), perhaps belief in god then appears reasonable?
This tactic fails, since it uses the wrong definition of atheism and conveniently forgets how religious believers do claim extravagant knowledge of a supreme infinite being. It is religion that credits an extraordinary capacity for knowledge to humans, not atheism.”

– John Shook in The God Debates: A 21st Century Guide for Atheists and Believers (and Everyone in Between)

Comment by Victor on October 27, 2010 at 2:16pm

"All Gods were immortal." - Stanislaw J Lec

Comment by Sydni Moser on October 27, 2010 at 1:16pm

I rarely post long quotes, but this one I thought was worth it's length.

"Socialism is justice. When we speak of justice, we understand thereby not the justice contained in the Codes and in Roman jurisprudence - which were based to a great extent upon facts of violence achieved by force, violence cons...ecrated by time and by the benedictions of some church or other (Christian or pagan), and as such accepted as absolute principles, from which all law is to be deduced by a process of logical reasoning - no, we speak of that justice which is based solely upon human conscience, the justice to be found in the consciousness of every man - even in that of children - and which can be expressed in a single word: equity.

This universal justice which, owing to conquests by force and religious influences, has never yet prevailed in the political or juridical or economic worlds, should become the basis of the new world. Without it there can be neither liberty, nor republic, nor prosperity, nor peace. It then must govern our resolutions in order that we work effectively toward the establishment of peace. And this justice urges us to take upon ourselves the defense of the interests of the terribly maltreated people and demand their economic and social emancipation along with political freedom." -- Mikhail Bakunin

Comment by Sydni Moser on October 26, 2010 at 7:16pm

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." ~ Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

“I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” ~ George Carlin

Comment by D R Hosie on October 25, 2010 at 4:30am

You owe it to us all, to get on with what you're good at.
- W H Auden

Tactics means doing what you can, with what you have.
- Saul Alinsky

The important work of moving the world forward, does not wait
to be done by perfect men. - George Eliot .

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on October 23, 2010 at 9:20pm

If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. - Jacques Cousteau

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on October 23, 2010 at 5:56pm

"Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish." ~ Proverbs 31:6

Wow, the first bible verse I've ever agreed with.

Comment by DeSwiss on October 23, 2010 at 5:45pm

"Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish." ~ Proverbs 31:6

"Though each religion has its own peculiar growth, the seed from which they spring is everywhere the same." ~ Max Muller

“Religion is to morality, as an anthill is to the space program.” ~ Katherine Forest

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” ~ Aldous Huxley

"Everybody wants to be your friend once you're dead.'' ~ Vanessa Redgrave

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