Screw the Government!
Promoting
Peace and Tranquility across the Planet
Time
for regime change in the USA. Throw
the bums out. Start your own revolution: VOTE.
Dump Bush. Impeach. Retire Bush to
the dung-heap of deposed tyrants.
Open the window & let the bad air out.
Indulge your catharsis.
Bush's Abu Ghraib
Torture Hell Poster
Q:
How can you tell if Bush
is lying?
A:
His lips are moving.
The Lies of George W. Bush
Jimmy Carter on Blair and Bush: 'Their war was based on lies'
Scientists rip into Bush's policy, charge 'suppression of information'
Bush Administration Miscalculation in Iraq Leads to Calls for Accountability--misleader.org
So much intelligence, so many lies
The Resume of George Walker Bush
Lies,
Lies, and More Lies
By Monte Paulsen, Dragonfly Review
of Books
Caught
on Film:
The Bush Credibility Gap
THE
LIES OF GEORGE W. BUSH:
MASTERING THE POLITICS OF
DECEPTION
DAVID CORN
A
List of Bush LIES on Iraq
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by Kelley Kramer
The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism
Bush Press Conference Whoppers
Who's
Exaggerating Now?
Bush Exaggerates, Misinforms, Misleads
and Waffles 24 Times in One Debate!
issues that have gone completely unchallenged
Bush
Lies About Iraq Are Only
The Symptom, Not The Disease
by Ira Chernus
Exposing
Bush and His "Techniques
of Deceit"
by Dennis
Hans
Letters to Senator Edward Kennedy
Bush Lies About Lying About 9-11/Saddam Lies
Bush
Buys Lies to Push His War
By CHRIS
FLOYD
The
New York Times whitewashes
Bush’s lies on Iraq
war
By Bill Vann
Why
Bush lies about Iraq
John Pilger
What
a Tangled Web We Weave .
. .
. . . when
first we practice to deceive!
Bush
Lies, Media Swallows
By Eric
Alterman
PATRIOTS
OF TRUTH SPEAK OUT
by ILTServ
A
MATTER OF TRUST
By Susie
Madrak
Why
This Bush Lie? Part 1
It wasn't his first.
By Timothy Noah
Bush Administration Lies Archives
Bush
Touts Economic Numbers,
But Less Rosy Reality Lies
Beneath the Surface
misleader.org
Why
it matters that Bush lied
Brian Flemming
President
Bush is a Liar
bumper stickers and links
The
Slick Oil Men and The One
Man Oil-Slick
by charles
amsellem
Bush
Lies: The Ends Justify the
Means
By q2112.com
Bush
Faced Dwindling Data on
Iraq Nuclear Bid
By Walter
Pincus
Washington Post
Sorting
out the "imminent threat" debate
By Ben Fritz
Threats,
Promises And Lies
By PAUL
KRUGMAN
Dead
Parrot Society
By PAUL
KRUGMAN
Not
covering Bush lies
Posted
by Lakshm
Bush
lies and manipulates public
and Congress
by Carla
Binion
A tight process of selective screening
Bush Lies About His Track-Record on Grid Upgrades
Wrong
for Bush to lie
Exposing the Right
Bush's
lies to public merit impeachment
Paul Goodman
Is W. the Biggest Liar Since LBJ?
How much lying are we willing to accept or ignore?
Rumsfeld
pushes big lie on "human
shields” in Iraq
By Henry Michaels
Bush Extreme Cowardice
An
Interesting Day:
President Bush's Movements and Actions
on 9/11
John
Prados:
Follow The Leader—what
did Bush do on that fateful day?
Bush AWOL
PRESIDENT TOP
GUN: AFFIRMATIVELY MISSING IN
ACTION
by Greg Palast
Did Bush drop out of the National Guard to avoid drug testing?
Where were you
in '72?
Most of us remember...Bush does
not...
AWOL and Dereliction
of Duty
By WILLIAM WILGUS
Bush Goes AWOL
by Eric Alterman
Did George W. Bush go AWOL during his time in the National Guard?
Bush Aiding Terrorists
Bill
Moyers interview with Seymour
Hersh:
What's at stake in Pakistan
Report on 9/11 Suggests a Role By Saudi Spies
Bush Leaking for Vengeance
Bush Family Nazi Ties
How
The Bush Family Made Its
Fortune From The Nazis
The Dutch Connection
Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy
Bush
Family Values Photo Album
hereinreality.co
Bush Theft of Presidency
"Theft
of the Presidency"
BBC-TV Newsnight
by Greg Palast
Florida's 'Disappeared
Voters': Disfranchised by the
GOP
The Nation
by Greg Palast
A Blacklist Burning
For Bush
The London Observer
Sunday, December 10, 2000
Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program - Salon.com's politics story of the year
Bush family finances: Best democracy money can buy
The London Observer
SILENCE OF THE
MEDIA LAMBS: The Election Story
Never Told
www.tompaine.com
Bush Blunder on Flight 93
How Did United Flight 93 Crash?
Flight 93: The Improbable Truth
Regime Change
Military Families Urge Censure for Bush as Congress Marks Iraq Anniversary
Support Bill HJ Resolution 20, taking War powers away from George W. Bush
One Republican Against Bush: Ritter
Frontier
Justice: Weapons of Mass
Destruction and the Bushwhacking
of America
by Scott
Ritter
Countdown
to Election Day:
525 Reasons to Dump Bush
Rhonda & Jane
present
Countdown to Election Day:
525 Reasons to Dump Bush
RideOnIce:
Question Everything
Patriot Act
Bush's Master Plan for the Internet --by KURT NIMMO
''High
treason in the U.S. government''
Doreen Miller
yellowtimes.org
"...The act's extremely clever yet highly misleading acronym USA PATRIOT, which stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism," is an obvious attempt to intimidate and brand as "unpatriotic" and treasonous anyone who might dare to question its alarmingly overreaching provisions.
In light of the egregious evisceration of the Bill of Rights that this law undertakes, those who blindly supported and signed this blatantly unconstitutional act into law should be collectively condemned and charged for high treason to the Constitution and the people of the United States of America..."
WMD
David Kay: IRAQ ILLICIT ARMS GONE BEFORE WAR, INSPECTOR STATES
Not Everyone Got it Wrong on Iraq's Weapons --Ritter
US Chemical Arms Demolition Delayed
AFTER THE WAR: ARMS; Iraqi Trailers Said To Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms
US
tried to plant WMDs, failed:
whistleblower
Daily Times Monitor
Bush Administration Miscalculation in Iraq Leads to Calls for Accountability
'Heads Should Roll over Iraq'--hypocrisy from Richard Perle
IRAQ ILLICIT ARMS GONE BEFORE WAR, INSPECTOR STATES
THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: DIPLOMACY; Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War
The Cabal:
Neo Conservatives and the PNAC,
et al., faked evidence, faulty
intelligence
Stephan
A.Cambone: Architect of
Torture Policy
(developing)
Clarke: Rice should have done job before 9/11
The Bush administration failed to take the threat of Al Qaeda seriously prior to Sept. 11
Bush Accused of Ignoring Al Qaeda Until After 9/11
Blix says that Blair lacked 'critical thinking' in run-up to Iraq war
Blix: Iraq war was illegal; Blair's defence is bogus, says the former UN weapons inspector
Arms expert says Bush and Blair misled on Iraq
Iraq war was illegal, says Blix
C.I.A. Chief Says He's Corrected Cheney Privately
Wolfowitz role in faked uranium 'evidence'
Intelligence
Scam:
Flawed Uranium Intelligence Came From
Forged Documents Sold to Italians
Ex-UN Inspector Ritter: Bush Based War on 'A Lie'
Neighborhood
Bully
Ramsey
Clark on American Militarism
an interview by DERRICK JENSEN
The
Corruption of Covert Actions
by
Ramsey Clark
Ramsey
Clark:
U.S. Will Pay Price for Rule
CIA: Assessment of Syria's WMD exaggerated
Probes of prewar intelligence key to credibility of Bush, U.S., senators say
LUNCH
WITH THE CHAIRMAN
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan
Khashoggi?
America’s unprecedented power scares the world, and the Bush administration has only made it worse. How we got here—and what we can do about it now
By Fareed Zakaria
Timeline:
The Evolution of the Bush Doctrine,
origins of The Project for a
New American Century
My
Podhoretz Problem – and
Ours
Scott McConnell
Exposing
Karl Rove
by WAYNE MADSEN
The
1991 Gulf War Rationale
by Gilles d'Aymery
Money down a rat hole
House Approves $369 Billion for Defense Spending
Debt reaches $7 Trillion for the first time
Pentagon Ends Deal with Halliburton to Import Fuel to Iraq
Profiting from Misery
Rebuilding Iraq -- The Contractors
Winning
Contractors
U.S. Contractors Reap the Windfalls
of Post-war Reconstruction
Amid
furor, Pentagon kills terrorism
futures market
Boxer calls program 'very sick
Archaeologists' pleas for protection of Iraqi antiquities heard but not heeded
Updates on Iraq
Israeli Terrorism
The Assault on the USS Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years
U.S.S. Liberty audio recordings following Israeli attack
'The USS Liberty: still covered up after 35 years''
'The USS Liberty': America's Most Shameful Secret
Truth and Peace
Countering
a Wave of Hate
By Tim Robbins
Center for Cooperative Research
Bush Record as Governor of Texas
Watch Dogs
copwatch.com
Policing the Police
freedomforum.org
Washington
city sues to halt Web
site that gives police
details
American Civil Liberties Union
Humor
Bush Speaks
Fanning The Flames Of The
Burning Bush
Bush on Iraq--Cool Funny Pictures
Ashcroft
Hypocrisy
Tony
Blair’s New
Friend He Made the
Moral Case for War,
but Backs A Dictator
Who Boils Prisoners
to Death
George Monbiot
dissidentvoice.org
Massacre of Kurds: Unanswered Questions
Did Saddam poison gas the Kurds?
Saddam's
Weapons
by Achille Lodovisi
Convenient
And Not So Convenient
Massacres
By Anthony Arnove
Who gassed the Kurds, Iraq or Iran?
etc
Islam
vs. Islam
FAREED
ZAKARIA
GENEIVE ABDO
KANAN MAKIYA
ERIC ROULEAU
UN:
Rights Commission Starts
Work Amid Concern Over
Credibility
By Mark Baker
Frontline
Palestinian journalists in the line
of fire
Kerry rumor
enough is enough, no time for distractions
Is
it not possible that an individual
may be right and a government wrong?
Are laws to be enforced simply because
they were made? Or declared by any
number of men to be good, if they
are not good?
— Henry
David Thoreau, defending
the principals under which
John Brown acted
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.
— President
Theodore Roosevelt,
1918, during WWI
They
that can give up essential
liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve
neither liberty or safety.
— Benjamin Franklin
But
when a long train of abuses
and usurpations,
pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design
to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future
security.
— The
Declaration of Independence
Change is difficult. You cannot expect people with great privileges taken at the expense of ordinary working people to surrender them lightly. But the history of humanity is that determined people will overcome obstacles. And we will overcome the problems that this country is facing as a result of George W. Bush and as a result of a Washington establishment that has forgotten who sent them there.
— Howard Dean, February 18, 2004, when he withdrew from presidential race
It
is dangerous to be right when the
government is wrong.
— Voltaire
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism; ownership by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The
truth is that all men having power ought
to be mistrusted.
— James
Madison
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
— Mark Twain
All these lies, whether their authors know it or not, harbor an element of violence; organized lying always tends to destroy what ever it has decided to negate, although only totalitarian governments have consciously adopted lying as the first step to murder.
— Hannah Arendt "Truth and Politics," from Between Past and Future
The
world will not evolve past its
current state of crisis
by using the same thinking
that created the situation.
— A. Einstein
Cunning
leads to knavery. It is
but a step from one to the
other, and that very slippery.
Only lying makes the difference;
add that to cunning, and
it is knavery.
— Ovid
Lying
can never save us from another lie.
— Vaclav Havel
I
know of no safe depository
for the ultimate powers
of society but the people
themselves; and if we think
them not enlightened enough
to exercise their control
with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take
it from them, but to inform
their discretion.
— Thomas Jefferson
There
are times when you have
to obey a call which is
the highest of all, i.e.
the voice of conscience
even though such obedience
may cost many a bitter tear,
and even more, separation
from friends, from family,
from the state, to which
you may belong, from all
that you have held as dear
as life itself. For this
obedience is the law of
our being.
— Mahatma
Gandhi
In
the beginning of a change, the Patriot
is a scarce man, brave, hated, and
scorned. When his cause succeeds,
however, the timid join him, for then
it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
— Mark Twain
There
is a condition worse than blindness,
and that is, seeing something that
isn't there.
— Thomas Hardy
Truth
made you a traitor as it often does
in a time of scoundrels.
— Lillian Hellman
All
truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it
is violently opposed. Third, it is
accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It
is a universal truth that the loss
of liberty at home is to be charged
to the provisions against danger,
real or pretended, from abroad.
— James Madison
Justice
is the truth in action.
— Joseph Joubert
Violence
is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
I
object to violence because when it
appears to do good, the good is only
temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
— Mohandas Gandhi
All
violence consists in some people forcing
others, under threat of suffering
or death, to do what they do not want
to do.
— Leo Tolstoy
Truth
is confirmed by inspection and delay;
falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
— Tacitus
Truth
often suffers more by the heat of
its defenders than the arguments of
its opposers.
— William
Penn
Justice
requires that everyone should have
enough to eat. But it also requires
that everyone should contribute to
the production of food.
— Elias Canetti
What
many now call 'growth' will
soon be seen as accelerated
decay.
— Dan Fiscus
Washington,
DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to
cheese.
— Dennis Miller
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
— Steven Soderbergh
... after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
— Cree Indian Prophecy
Respect
for the truth comes close to being
the basis for all morality.
— Frank Herbert
Forests
precede civilizations and
deserts follow.
— Chateaubriand
When
I tell the truth, it is not for the
sake of convincing those who do not
know it, but for the sake of defending
those that do.
— William Blake
Truth
is a tendency.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth
never comes into the world but like
a bastard, to the ignominy of him
that brought her birth.
— John Milton
"[The
clergy] believe that any portion of
power confided to me [as President]
will be exerted in opposition to their
schemes. And they believe rightly: for I
have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal
hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man. But this
is all they have to fear from me: and
enough, too, in their opinion."
— Thomas
Jefferson to Benjamin Rush,
1800
Patriotism
is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson,
April 7, 1775
Nationalism
is our form of incest, is our idolatry,
is our insanity. "Patriotism" is
its cult. It should hardly
be necessary to say, that by "patriotism" I
mean that attitude which puts the own
nation above humanity, above the principles
of truth and justice; not the loving
interest in one's own nation, which
is the concern with the nation's spiritual
as much as with its material welfare
--never with its power over other nations.
Just as love for one individual which
excludes the love for others is not
love, love for one's country
which is not part of one's love for
humanity is not love, but idolatrous
worship.
— Erich Fromm
Patriotism
is the willingness to kill and be
killed for trivial reasons.
— Bertrand Russell
Governments
are instituted among Men,
deriving their just Powers
from the Consent of the
Governed, that whenever
any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these Ends,
it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government,
laying its Foundation on
such Principles, and organizing
its Powers in such Form,
as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety
and Happiness .
— Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism
is a pernicious, psychopathic form
of idiocy.
— George Bernard
Shaw
Democracy
is two wolves and a lamb voting on
what to have for lunch. Liberty is
a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
— Benjamin Franklin
A
politician will do anything to keep
his job even become a patriot.
— William Randolph Hearst
(1863-1951) US newspaper publisher,
Recalled on his death 14 Aug 1951
A
patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
US author
The
West won the world not by the superiority
of its ideas or values or religion
but rather by its superiority in applying
organized violence. Westerners often
forget this fact, non-Westerners never
do.
— Samuel P.
Huntington
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
— David Friedman
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
— Groucho Marx
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
— Winston Churchill
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
— Ambrose Bierce
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
— George Patton
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
— Anne O'Hare McCormick
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
— Plato
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Another victory like that and we are done for.
— Pyrrhus
Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
— Katz' Law
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
— Ambrose Bierce
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
—Edward Everett
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
—Aldous Huxley
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
—?
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
— Henry Kissinger
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
— Groucho Marx
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
— Benjamin Franklin
All warfare is based on deception.
— Sun Tzu
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
— Benjamin Franklin
Patriot
: the person who can holler the loudest
without knowing what he is hollering
about.
— Mark Twain
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
— Carl Schurz
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
— Bertrand Russell
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
— Voltaire
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
— Sir Winston Churchill
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
— H. L. Mencken
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
— Harry S. Truman
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
— H. L. Mencken
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
— Charles de Gaulle
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.
— Robertson Davies
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
— Doug Larson
The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
— Edward R. Murrow
That
politician who curries favor with
the citizens and indulges them and
fawns upon them and has a presentiment
of their wishes, and is skillful in
gratifying them, he is esteemed a
great statesman.
— Plato
If
you want total security , go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical
care and so on. The only thing lacking...
is freedom.
— Dwight D.
Eisenhower
The
only real security that a man can
have in this world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience and ability.
— Henry Ford
We
have gone completely overboard on
security . Everything has to be secured,
jobs, wages, hours- although the ultimate
in security is jail, the slave labor
camp and the salt mine.
— Cola Parker
In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
— Theodore Forstmann
If,
sir, men were all virtuous, I should
with great alacrity teach them all
to fly. But what would be the security
of the good if the bad could at pleasure
invade them from the sky? Against
an army sailing through the clouds
neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas
could afford any security.
— Samuel Johnson
Distrust
and caution are the parents of security
.
— Benjamin Franklin
The
man who trades freedom for security
does not deserve nor will he ever
receive either.
— Benjamin Franklin
Any
society that would give up a little
liberty to gain a little security
will deserve neither and lose both.
— Benjamin Franklin
We
will bankrupt ourselves in the vain
search for absolute security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life
is either a daring adventure or nothing
at all. Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
— Helen Keller
Only
in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically
enough, is true security to be found.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
True
individual freedom cannot exist without
economic security and independence.
People who are hungry and out of a
job are the stuff of which dictatorships
are made.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The
man who looks for security , even
in the mind, is like a man who would
chop off his limbs in order to have
artificial ones which will give him
no pain or trouble.
— Henry V. Miller
No man's life, liberty , or property are safe while the congress is in session.
— Mark Twain
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
— Mark Twain
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
— Mark Twain
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."
— Harry S. Truman
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have these three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
— Mark Twain (from Following the Equator)
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
—Thomas Jefferson
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.
—President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
This
institution will be based upon the
illimitable freedom of the human mind.
For here we are not afraid to follow
truth wherever it may lead, nor to
tolerate any error so long as reason
is left free to combat it.
— Thomas Jefferson
No
one lies so boldly as the man who
is indignant.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Americans
detest all lies except lies spoken
in public or printed lies.
— Edward W. Howe
It
is impossible to calculate the moral
mischief, if I may so express it,
that mental lying has produced in
society. When a man has so far corrupted
and prostituted the chastity of his
mind as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe
he has prepared himself for the commission
of every other crime.
— Thomas Paine
Man's
greatness lies in his power of thought.
— Blaise Pascal
Should
not even the desire to take,
to profit at another’s
expense, imply a desire
[to] preserve that other
as a potential source of
wealth and profit?
— Tzvetan Todorov,
The Conquest of America
A
lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get
its pants on.
— Sir Winston Churchill
We
lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
— Eric Hoffer
We
tell lies when we are afraid... afraid
of what we don't know, afraid of what
others will think, afraid of what
will be found out about us. But every
time we tell a lie , the thing that
we fear grows stronger.
— Tad Williams
A
man who tells lies , like me, merely
hides the truth. But a man who tells
half- lies has forgotten where he
put it.
— Claude Rains
A
lie which is half a truth is ever
the blackest of lies.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
It
is more from carelessness about truth
than from intentionally lying that
there is so much falsehood in the
world..
— Samuel Johnson
I
do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie..
— Michel de Montaigne
The
best liar is he who makes the smallest
amount of lying go the longest way.
— Samuel Butler
Propaganda
is that branch of the art of lying
which consists in nearly deceiving
your friends without quite deceiving
your enemies.
— F. M. Cornford
Few
tragedies can be more extensive than
the stunting of life, few injustices
deeper than the denial of an opportunity
to strive or even to hope, by a limit
imposed from without, but falsely
identified as lying within.
— Stephen Jay Gould
A
resolution to avoid an evil is seldom
framed till the evil is so far advanced
as to make avoidance impossible.
— Thomas Hardy
Forgiveness
is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
War
has become a luxury that only small
nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
There
are no dangerous thoughts; thinking
itself is dangerous.
— Hannah Arendt
The
most radical revolutionary will become
a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
The
sad truth is that most evil is done
by people who never make up their
minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
We
All Live Downstream.
— David Suzuki
And
ye shall know the truth
and the truth shall make
you mad.
— Aldous Huxley
Truth
has no special time of its
own. Its hour is now - always.
— Albert Schweitzer
The
education of today is nothing
more than drill... children
must be accustomed to obey,
to believe, to think according
to the social dogmas which
govern us.
— Francisco
Ferrer
Either
we have hope within us or
we don’t; it is a
dimension of the soul, an
orientation of the spirit,
an orientation of the heart
-- not the conviction that
something will turn out
well, but the certainty
that something makes sense.
— Vaclav Havel
...
to limit access in the news media
to differing opinions is to acknowledge
our democracy's defeat.
— Tim
Robbins
NOTHING
appears more surprizing
to those, who consider human
affairs with a philosophical
eye, than the easiness with
which the many are governed
by the few; and the implicit
submission, with which men
resign their own sentiments
and passions to those of
their rulers. When we enquire
by what means this wonder
is effected, we shall find,
that, as FORCE is always
on the side of the governed,
the governors have nothing
to support them but opinion.
It is therefore, on opinion
only that government is
founded; and this maxim
extends to the most despotic
and most military governments,
as well as to the most free
and most popular.
— David
Hume,OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES
OF GOVERNMENT
I
have come to fear almost
everything having to do
with law. Though there are
many fine people in the
legal profession, and though
law is necessary to protect
society from descending
into chaos, I now fear the
legal profession more than
I do Islamic terrorists.
— Dennis Prager,
radio talk-show host,
commenting in World
Net Daily's Whistleblower
Magazine (August 20, 2002):
We
have gone from the world
of George Orwell, where
large empires confronted
each other, to the universe
of Ian Fleming and James
Bond, where a megalomaniac
billionaire hidden in a
cave sends planes against
American cities.
— Bulgarian
historian Tzvetan Todorov,
in the course of an interview
with the NYT
John Brown, to the court, at his trial:
I
have, may it please the Court, a few
words to say.
In the first place, I deny everything but what
I have all along admitted: of a design on my
part to free slaves . . .
Had I interfered in the matter which I admit,
and which I admit has been fairly proved . .
. had I so interfered in behalf of the
rich, the powerful, the intelligent, or the
so-called great . . . and suffered and sacrificed,
what I have in this interference, it would have
been all right. Every man in
this Court would have deemed it an act worthy
of reward rather than punishment.
I see a book kissed which I suppose to be the
Bible, or at least the New Testament, which
teaches me that all things whatsoever I would
that men should do unto me, I should do even
so to them. It teaches me further to remember
them that are in bonds as bound with them. I
endeavored to act up to that instruction. I
say that I am yet too young to understand that
God is any respecter of persons. I believe that
to have interfered as I have done, as I have
always freely admitted I have done in behalf
of His despised poor, I have done no wrong,
but right.
Now if it is deemed necessary that I should
forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends
of justice and mingle my blood further with
the blood of my children and with the blood
of millions in this slave country whose rights
are disregarded by wicked, cruel and unjust
enactments, I say, let it be done.
DEAR SIR, -- I am now to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of October the 4th, 8th, & 26th. In the last you apologise for your letters of introduction to Americans coming here. It is so far from needing apology on your part, that it calls for thanks on mine. I endeavor to show civilities to all the Americans who come here, & will give me opportunities of doing it: and it is a matter of comfort to know from a good quarter what they are, & how far I may go in my attentions to them. Can you send me Woodmason's bills for the two copying presses for the M. de la Fayette, & the M. de Chastellux? The latter makes one article in a considerable account, of old standing, and which I cannot present for want of this article. -- I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: & very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: & wha