Fear is a place where you just tell the truth.
-Clive Barker
Wasted youth is better by far the a wise and productive old age.
-Meatloaf
Seek the truth, no matter where it lies.
-Metallica
The foolish man think with narrow mind and speak with wide mouth.
-Charlie Chin
There is no knowledge that is not power.
-Mortal Kombat 3
We've got far too many hung juries and not enough hung defendants.
-Dennis Miller
Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.
-George Carlin
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it.
-Albert Einstein
Any plan, no matter how poorly conceived, if boldly executed, is better than inaction.
-U.S. Infantry Manual
Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.
-L. Ron Hubbard
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
-Dean Koontz
Whether or not God exists is not as important as whether a belief in God exists.
-Daniel Jackson, SG-1
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
-John F. Kennedy
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state
-Isabel Paterson
A person's a person, no matter how small.
-Dr. Suess
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-H. L. Mencken
Man is the only animal that blushes...or needs to.
-Mark Twain
Common sense isn't all that common.
-Voltaire
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
-Ernest Gaines
Resist much. Obey little.
-Walt Whitman
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.
-Edward Abbey
Reporters are puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
-Lyndon Johnson
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
-Anne Frank
Thou shalt hold nothing above reason and logic.
-The 1st Commandment of Lord Galen
Thou shalt question everything; nothing is above challenge.
-The 2nd Commandment of Lord Galen
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
-Nietzsche
School boards these days take it upon themselves to broaden their mission well beyond education.
-John G. Roberts
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
All the gang of those who rule us
Hope our quarrels never stop
Helping them to split and fool us
So they can remain on top
-Bertolt Brecht
There's no time to discriminate; hate every motherfucker that is in your way.
-Marilyn Manson
The National Youth Rights Association - Visit them, motherfucker!
I'm trying to like people, it's just so hard to weed through the stupid ones.
-Becker
Eight Mine Fortress - So close to being cool, it's scary.
Punkerslut - Shit's awesome!
Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse
America has never let an absence of any real threat ruin a good panic.
-Danny Harkins, Cracked.com
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden
-Kenneth Tynan
Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think
-George Orwell, "1984"
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
-Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
-Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
-Thomas Jefferson
If I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong. Don't talk to me about protocol.
-Dr. Gregory House
Think outside the box, then rape the box, shit in the box and light it on fire, then rape it again.
-Anonymous
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
-C.S. Lewis
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
-Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
-Mark Twain
As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
-Adolf Hitler
It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.
-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
If you speak the truth, have one foot in the stirrup.
-Turkish proverb
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
-Justice Hugo Black
Moral indignation: jealousy with a halo.
-H. G. Wells
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-H. L. Mencken
No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.
-John Holt
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force.
-William Blum
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
-Oscar Wilde
Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
-Nietzsche
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
-Gene Roddenberry
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
-George Bernard Shaw
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B. Anthony
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
-Mark Twain
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
-Eugene V. Debs
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way; stop participating in it.
-Noam Chomsky
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
-Ambrose Bierce
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-Woodrow Wilson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
-Mohandas Gandhi
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
-P.C. Hodgell
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
-Albert Einstein
Innocence is just ignorance in a frilly pink dress
-Julio Gutierrez
President, ASFAR
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people; otherwise, there would be no religious people.
-Dr. Gregory House
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
-C.S. Lewis
If Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be: a Christian.
-Mark Twain
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
-V for Vendetta
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
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Moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way 'states' rights' was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.
-John Waters
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
-Don Herold
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-Carl Sagan
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.
-Carl Sagan
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-Hanlon's razor
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
-Grey's Law
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-Elbert Hubbard
I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.
-Corey Smith
The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.
-Treaty of Tripoli
Article 11 (1797)
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
-Christopher Hitchens
The people should not pledge allegiance to the government; the government should pledge allegiance to the people.
-Michael Lind
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all
-Hypatia of Alexandria
Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid. They will believe a lie either because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it's true.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Fourth Rule: There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Sixth Rule: The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Seventh Rule: Life is the future, not the past.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Eighth Rule: Deserve victory.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Ninth Rule: A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Tenth Rule: Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
-Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Eleventh Rule: You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.
-Terry Goodkind
We are moving from how best to educate our students to how cheaply we can do it.
-Tim Callahan
Professional Association of Georgia Educators
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
-George Orwell
Let’s abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.
-Adora Svitak
For a brief but hilarious period [Dance Dance Revolution] was the next big 'Threat To Your Children.' Which should tell you everything you need to know about those stories.
-Cracked.com
Youth is wasted on the young - Authority is wasted on the old
-Jackie Ferro
President, NYRA Nanuet
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
-George Carlin
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
-Robert M. Pirsig
First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.
-Pastor Tony Campolo
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake.
-Christopher Hitchens
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
-Christopher Hitchens
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
-Christopher Hitchens
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History always punishes conservatives, not because conservatives are bad or wrong, but because they are, by definition, stuck. If you're standing still while the world is moving, you're going to get left behind.
-Kristi Harrison, Cracked.com
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