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• Freedom is just an attitude away

• We'll keep pushin' till it's understood, and these badlands start treating us good -- Bruce Springsteen

• The only reason people tell you not to have an ego is so that they can take advantage of you -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

• Achieve the weirdness.

• Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire -- Arab Proverb

• An oxymoron is a moron with an OH+ radical attached. Since both morons and free radicals tend to bind strongly to the first interesting thing that comes along, this is a match made in heaven.

• Illusions without freedom never quite add up to bliss -- Bob Seger

• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit -- Nelson Henderson

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be -- Lao-tzu

• There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries -- Winston Churchill

• The only bad 'f-word' is FCC -- Rage Against the Machine

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it -- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address

• They should take the cross off of the church and put it on the bank, because that's what they really worship -- Amerindian saying

• Freshness is the curse of demand-side economics -- Gnarlodious

• I see no other means of protecting ourselves against [the Jews], other than by conquering their Promised Land and sending them all there -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

• After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure -- Albus Dumbledore

• History is an angel being blown backwards into the future -- Laurie Anderson

• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it -- C. P. Snow

• The more you know, the less you need -- Aborigine saying

• Doublethink is the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them -- George Orwell, 1984

• Soul is the past, spirit is the future -- Gnarlodious

• Myth is like complex math: it has real and imaginary parts. Sometimes it seems like myth is imaginary and math is real -- Gnarlodious

• The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment -- Bertrand Russell

• Democracy is best applied thinly and over a wide area -- Gnarlodious

• The songwriter is like the sun, the song is content that expresses the self. The deejay is like the moon, the mix is the transition that expresses the group -- Gnarlodious

• Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams -- Stanley Kunitz

• Only when the last plant has died, the last river is poisoned, the last fish is caught; will we realize that we cannot eat money -- Cree Saying

• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth -- John F. Kennedy

• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike rather than those who think differently -- Nietzsche

• Cybergasted: Astonishment at this internet content

• There are two kinds of people in the world, those who see the world as a dichotomy, and those who don't -- Gnarlodious

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough -- M.C. Escher

• The first lemming to lead his peers off the cliff is a bold and decisive leader

• The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and three hundred, sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision -- Lynne Lavner

• Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara -- Arthur C. Clarke

• I think, therefore I'm single -- Lizz Winstead

• If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
• Ignoranus: a person who is both stupid AND an asshole
• I felt a great disturbance in the Forum; as if millions of hands suddenly slapped upon foreheads, and everyone fell down backwards

• Liberals think right for the wrong reasons, Conservatives think wrong for the right reasons -- Gnarlodious

• Darkness has conquered Brad and Janet.. -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance -- Oscar Wilde

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives -- Abba Eban

• When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country -- Elayne Boosler

• Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience

• If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you -- Samuel Goldwyn

• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy -- George Bernard Shaw

• Arguing with an expert is like wrestling with a pig in the mud… after a while you realize the pig enjoys it

• What do all powerful men want? More power -- The Mother of the Matrix

• Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy -- H. L. Mencken

• To attain knowledge, add things every day; to obtain wisdom, remove things every day" -- Lao Tzu

• He who has Science and Art,
  Religion, too, has He;
  Who has not Science, has not Art,
  let him religious be!
  -- Goethe

• When you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist underneath -- George Carlin

• Software should be treated as fair ware,
  So as to not be such rare ware.
  Which would encourage designers who dare where,
  Designs are created as care ware.

• Privatizing Social Security; a solution in search of a problem

• This entire doctrine is worthless except as a subject of dispute -- Georg Lichtenberg

• Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter VI

• Life at work is like a tree full of monkeys, All on different limbs at different levels. Some monkeys are climbing up, some down. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes -- Anon

• Tubal Litigation: Suing because of a misconception

• When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom -- Thomas Paine

• Progress is the process by which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals

• Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't even know if you owe -- Mark Twain

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war -- Samuel Butler

• Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions -- Terry Pratchett, The Truth

• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about -- John von Neumann

• I can no more be responsible for my own actions than can the canary who dies in the mine which it was intentionally brought -- Gnarlodious

• Semiotics: a language where all are masters and none are slaves -- Gnarlodious

• Individual debt ends at death, but collective debt is forever -- Gnarlodious

• The root is in the foot -- Tai Cu Chuan

• The bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars -- Bertrand Russell

• The shabbiest of all lies is the lie of silent-assertion... it happens when politicians, presidents, the media and all leaders obfuscate, deny, suppress or ignore a social wrong or anything deleterious occurring inside American society -- Mark Twain

• These corporations have been as greedy as humanly possible -- Senator Bernie Sanders

• The Rashomon Effect reflects the Zen-like Japanese culture, where unknowable truth is inconceivable. Westerners, on the other hand, are only able to conceive of knowable truth -- Gnarlodious

• The problem with America is that we have socialized personal rights and we have personalized social responsibilities.

• Every Messianic movement known to history has arisen in a society that has been subjected to severe stress of contact with an alien culture... involving military defeat, epidemic, and acculturation -- Peter Farb

• The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles, which is a parody on the sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac, is copied from the ancient religions of the eastern world -- Thomas Paine

• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained -- William Blake

• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it -- Desiderius Erasmus

• The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance -- Thomas Jefferson

• It is easier to fight for principles than live up to them -- Alfred Adler

• War is God's way of teaching Americans geography -- Ambrose Bierce

• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe -- John Muir

• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters -- Benjamin Franklin

• When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree -- William Blake

• Efficiency is intelligent laziness -- David Dunham

• He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself -- Thomas Paine

• To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public -- Theodore Roosevelt

• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad -- James Madison

• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." -- H.L.Mencken

• And Seven, as he runs his final cycles, wishes he could have been more than the child of such small gods -- Mohammad Haque

• Nostalgia is the enemy of happiness, and expectation is the source of all anxiety -- Gnarlodious

• When a true genius enters this world, you will know him by this sign, all the dunces will be in confederacy against him -- Jonathan Swift

• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul -- Oscar Wilde

• The word "globalization" stands for the organized absence of responsibility -- Ulrich Beck

• If it's wrong, it's called numerology. If it's right, it's called math -- Gnarlodious

• If electricity comes from electrons, does that mean morality comes from morons?

• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music -- Nietzsche

• Mechanical engineers build weapons; civil engineers build targets

• Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter -- Dick Cheney

• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader -- Plato

• Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible -- Lawrence of Arabia

• The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally -- Thomas Troward

• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt -- Bertrand Russell

• Don't dwell on regrets, but get on with the business of making new decisions that you'll regret later
• To fly, America needs both a right wing and a left wing

• Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth -- Albert Einstein

• Everything begins in mystique and ends in politics -- Charles Péguy

• Truth... is an extremely malleable concept. Some prefer to spell it with a capital T, while others are content with a small t -- Gnarlodious

• A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought -- Leon Blum

• E coli conservative: an ideologue who won't accept even the most compelling case for government regulation -- Rick Perlstein

• The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed -- Steven Biko

• The path from good to evil goes through bogus -- Tara Ploughman

• If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you -- the Kotzker rebbe

• Acknowledgement of evil is the first step to letting it take over the world -- Gnarlodious