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#1

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#2

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#3

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics

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#4

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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#5

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women

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#6

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben

tags: humour, politics, truth

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#7

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#8

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics

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#9

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
― George Burns

tags: humor, politics

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#10

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#11

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: democracy, government, humor, politics, public-opinion

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#12

“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 are 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 clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: government, guns, military, military-budget, politics, poverty, war, weapons

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#13

“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
― George Carlin

tags: organized-religion, politics, religion

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#14

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

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#15

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics

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#16

“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
― Ron Paul

tags: constitution, founding-fathers, illegal-taxes, income-tax, politics, ron-paul, tax, taxes

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#17

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes

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#18

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

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#19

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#20

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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#21

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought

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#22

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

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#23

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom

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#24

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

tags: freedom, liberty, slavery

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#25

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom

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#26

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: freedom, liberty

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#27

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
― Malcom X

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#28

“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: censorship, freedom

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#29

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination

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#30

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcom X

tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war

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