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What a sight! This infinitely proceeding division of society into the most manifold races opposed to one another by petty antipathies, uneasy consciences, and brutal mediocrity, and which, precisely because of their reciprocal ambiguous and distrustful attitude, are all, without exception although with various formalities, treated by their rulers as conceded existences. And they must recognize and acknowledge as a concession of heaven the very fact that they are mastered, ruled, possessed!
K Marx, Critique of Philosophy of Right
“We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory”
V.I. Lenin (Happy Bastille Day!)
"Prepare for the coming struggle"
V.I. Lenin
Lawyers will immediately wonder if this isn't a version of the "ostrich defense," which judges describe during jury instruction as willful blindness or deliberate ignorance.
Wall Street Journal on politicians' ties to mortgage companies
"You wanted capitalism? You got it. Now it's time to give you what you asked for ..."
Vladivostok Radio (Grand Theft Auto 4)
This dim, equable and “well-bred” man was cruel – not with the active cruelty of Ivan the Terrible or of Peter, in the pursuit of historic aims - ... but with the cowardly cruelty of the late born, frightened at his own doom.
Leon Trotsky (regarding the Tsar), History of the Russian Revolution
The danger must be growing, for the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing, any sign that they are slowing...
Willy Wonka
"The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up."
Charles Bukowski
"We support the bourgeois revolution more than the bourgeoisie supports it."
V.I. Lenin
?The Fed chairman may be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, but his real bosses are on Wall Street.?
Richard Yamarone, an investment analyst for the Washington Post
"In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All
issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies,
evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia,"
George Orwell
We are not a young people with an innocent record and scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves [an] altogether disproportionate share of wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seem less reasonable to others than to us.
Churchill, in a speech to Parliament, 1914
"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."
-- Winston Churchill
"We have nothing against ideas. We're against people spreading them."
- General Augusto Pinochet of Chile
-- the United States should "punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia" for their opposition to the invasion of Iraq. --
-- Condoleeza Rice, from her new book "Really, we're NOT an Empire."
"Let me tell you something important. As long as my country is under occupation, I feel that my vote means nothing."
WALID MUHAMMAD, the imam of a major Sunni mosque in Iraq.
"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world that we mean business."
- Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute (a neo-con think tank)
"The question people are asking is why do they hate us? This is the wrong question.... The question which we should be asking is why they neither fear nor respect us."
- Professor Bernard Lewis
“There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him and then kills him to get his land.”
- Mark Twain
"The illegal we do immediately. The un-Constitutional takes a little longer."
- Henry Kissinger (alluding to a phrase from the French Revolution "If it is possible, Madame, consider it done. The impossible takes a little longer")