Category: quotes

Reblogged from: The Smoking Man “…If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and you screw things up, then you’re responsible for what they’ve done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote—who, in fact, did not even leave…

Don’t be fooled by the radio, the TV or the magazines… if you do – you’ll just be livin someone else’s fantasy Remember (that truth) it’s all an illusion “There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.” – Neal Donald Walsch Truth Exists Within…

As a child I thought adults actually knew the world and what was going on. As I got older I realised that nobody really knows anything. I Thought They Knew

“This is what they want, a population in a state of superstitious terror, patrolled by self-righteous busybodies, snitched on by informers.” – Peter Hitchens This Is What They Want

Two movie quotes today – from the movie: V For Vendetta “Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot… But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to…

You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy: “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man’s freedom…

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.”  ~​Michael Ellner

” … in politics nothing is accidental. If something happens, be assured it was planned this way. ” – Franklin D Roosevelt

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

In memory of my daughter  Kimberlee J Deinema (November 20, 1991 – January 24, 2017)

​If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn’t be enough to go around. Christina Stead

​Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depricate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground. Frederick Douglass

What is the reason? Soon the why and the reason are gone and all that matters is the feeling. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it; but it is of course a lie. Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control. ​~Merovingian

​To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. ~Mouse (The Matrix) 

​We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? A. B.…

​“Cameron has never been in love — at least, nobody’s ever been in love with him. If things don’t change for him, he’s gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she’s gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all…

​” The high office of President has been used to ferment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizens of this plight. ” – jfk

​If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do  read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain

​“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” – DH Lawrence

​There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. Bill McKibben

​“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” President George W. Bush, August 5th, 2004

​Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert Kennedy

​But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it’s America’s bullying foreign policy they detest. Harry Browne

​But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it’s America’s bullying foreign policy they detest. Harry Browne

​“I’ve never met a drug yet, including aspirin, that didn’t have some side effects. ~Dr. Arthur Caplan”

​ You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ~Max Beerbohm

​”No, Meg. Don’t hope it was a dream. I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.” ~ Mrs Murry  (A Wrinkle in Time) book