“Some men see things as they are and ask why, I dream things that never were and ask why not?”
–Robert F. Kennedy
“I never learned to fight for my freedom, I was only good at enjoying it.”
– Oscar van den Boogaard
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may 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
(analysis)
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
– Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four
“Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from the favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.”
– Howard Zinn, “A Peoples History of the United States”
“The best questions I ever get asked, are the ones I ask myself.”
– Rush Limbaugh
“I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it.”
– Natalie Portman, on being a vegetarian
“I really don’t give a f**k. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?”
– Gore Vidal, on Roman Polanski
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it.”
– Frederic Bastiat, 1850
(analysis)
“It was only when I was introduced to the brilliant mind of appellate court judge A. Leon Higginbotham, I began to understand the problematic between the law and how poor people and people of color are seen in this land of the greed and home of the slave.”
– Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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