Freedom/Truth
All wars are civil wars,
because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human
race than to the particular country in which he was born. - Francois Fenelon
Any intelligent fool can
make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius,
and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein
As soon as men decide
that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes
indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. - Christopher
Dawson
At no time is freedom of
speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall
Lumsden
Blessed are the
peacemakers, for they shall be mowed down in the crossfire. - Michael Flynn, The
Nanotech Chronicles
Do not fear your
enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they
may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but
betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. - Bruno Jasienski,
Yasensky
Don't LOOK at anything
in a physics lab, don't TASTE anything in a chemistry lab, don't SMELL anything
in a biology lab, don't TOUCH anything in a medical lab and, most importantly,
don't LISTEN to anything in a philosophy department. - Bill Lye
Figuring things out for
yourself is the only freedom any one really has. Use that freedom. Make up your
own mind. - Michael Ironside, Starship Troopers
For all soldiers:
Remember, your equipment was made by the lowest bidder.
Freedom is not the right
to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought.
History is a selective
interpretation of events designed to justify those currently in power. Memory
is the same thing on an individual scale.
Humankind will not be
free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the
last Pentagon chief of staff.
Hypocrisy is the
Vaseline of social intercourse.
I believe everyody in
the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers
too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However,
I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I
wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than
string. – Scott Adams
I disapprove of what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
If we let people see
that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. - Pentagon official on
why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
In Germany, they first
came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then
they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody
left to speak up. – Pastor Marton Niemoller
It is forbidden to kill;
therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to
the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire "War"
It is hard to believe
that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in
his place. – H. L. Mencken
It was involuntary. They
sank my boat. - John F. Kennedy (comment when asked about his heroism)
It's not the bullet with
my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may
concern." - anonymous Belfast resident quoted in London Guardian, 1991
Join the Army: travel to
exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Kill a man, and you are
an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and
you are a god. - Jean Rostand
Loyalty to a petrified
opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain
Man has no right to kill
his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the
infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. - Percy Bysshe Shelley "A
Declaration of Rights" (Dublin, 1812)
Man will occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and
continue on. - Winston Churchill
Men create war to compete
with women, who create life. - Sharon Doubiago
Oh my GOD! They killed
HUMOR! - Jim Gerhardt, NJ 101.5 DJ, on parental attempts to censor "South
Park"
Pure truth, like pure
gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it
is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. -
Charles Caleb Colton
So long as governments
set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally
kill theirs. - Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes I think war is
God's way of teaching us geography. - Paul Rodriguez
The direct use of force
is such a poor solution to any problem; it is generally employed only by small
children and large nations. - David Friedman
The essence of wisdom is
to remain suspicious of what you want to be true.
The graveyards are full
of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle
The object of war is not
to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George
Patton
The only winner in the
War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. - Solomon Short
The truth shall make you
free, but first it shall piss you off.
The worst thing about
censorship is [deleted by censorship bureau].
To save your world you
asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H.
Auden: "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier"
Truth? We search and
search. Many have opinions that are laws unto themselves but in trying to
impose those laws on others truth probably walked right by laughing or crying,
unnoticed. - Roger Pielechaty
Victory goes to the
player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower
We can forgive a child
who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of
the light. – Plato
When the Egyptians were
drowning in the Red Sea, the angels in heaven began to break forth in songs of
jubilation, but the Holy One, blessed be He, silenced them: "My creatures
are perishing -- and ye are ready to sing!" - Talmud
Wherever books will be
burned, men also, in the end, are burned. - Heinrich Heine, Almansor
You need only reflect
that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen
these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers
used in the struggle for independence. – Charles Austin Beard