People say the craziest things.

• "The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions. They're for tax cuts and against them. They're for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They're for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. They're in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts."
  - George W. Bush, on the Dems
  
  
• "I don't really have to watch everything I say because I'm pretty well-behaved."
  - Laura Bush
  
  
• "Look what your brother did to the door! Ain't got no, no pride in his home!"
  - Leatherface's dad, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  
  
• "How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
  - from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
  
  
• "I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
  - General Douglas Macarthur
  
  
• "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. . . . War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
  - J.F.K.
  
  
• "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure."
  - Lyndon B. Johnson
  
  
• "Why, of course people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
  - Herman Goering (at the Nuremberg Trials)
  
  
• "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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
  - Dwight Eisenhower
  
  "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
  
  
• French Graffiti, 1968. My favorite: "If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him."
  
  
• "I'm back from hell. They said I couldn't go in unless I took you with me."
  - Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, from Zatoichi the Fugitive
  
  
• "When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that 'all men are created equal' a self-evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim 'a self-evident lie.'"
  - Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• “Recognize you’re anxious.” – M
  
  
• “There’ll be no great escape.” – 1010 WINS News, when the jailbreak plot got busted
  
  
• “Sushi out the door.” – Raphael, on how big the portions were
  
  
• “Do it all.” – Andy, when we were debating our options
  
  
• "Everybody is somebody's weirdo."
  - Dilbert
  
  
• Sergeant Howie: But they are... are naked!
  Lord Summerisle: Naturally! It's much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on!
  - The Wicker Man.
  
  
• "Music, like life, is essentially useless."
  - Santayana
  
  
• "What we do in life, echoes In eternity."
  - Gladiator (2000)
  
  
• "Whether other nations live well or die of starvation interests me only in so far as we need slaves for our culture--other than that, it holds for me no interest."
  - Hinrich Himmler
  
  
• "Your job is making you boring and mean."
  "My job is making me a respectable member of society."
  - Maria and Matthew from Trust (1990)
  
  
• "Without contraries there is no progression."
  - William Blake
  
  
• "Without struggle there is no progress."
  - Frederick Douglass
  
  
• "Very little is needed to destroy a man. He needs only the conviction that his work is useless."
  - Antonin Artaud
  
  
• "Just because I don't CARE doesn't mean I don't understand!"
  - Homer Simpson
  
  
• "It's not evil, just sad."
  - Toni Morrison, Beloved
  
  
• "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  
• "It's not how you play the game! It's whether you win or lose!"
  - Grandpa Munster
  
  
• "There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. it is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes canons of taste and value; it is virtually indistinguishable from certain ideas it dignifies as true, and from traditions, perceptions, and judgments it forms, transmits, reproduces. Above all, authority can, and indeed must, be analysed."
  - Edward Said
  
  
• "The modern West has produced not only its servile imitators and admirers but also its circus-tamed opponents and its tragic counterplayers performing their last gladiator-like acts of courage in front of appreciative Caesars."
  - Ashis Nandy warning of the "cult" in "multiculturalism"
  
  
• "DO. Or do not. There is no 'try'."
  - Yoda
  
  
• "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
  -Gandhi
  
  
• "We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security."
  - George Kennan, one-time head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff.
  
  
• "Species evolve to meet the environment.
  An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself.
  As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving."
  - Larry Niven, The Mote in God's Eye
  
  
• "Of all the thirty-six ways to get out of trouble, the best way is - leave."
  - Watermargins (aka Outlaws of the Marsh)
  
  
• "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
  - Rainer Maria Rilke
  
  
• "A five dollar paperback book will dance on the grave of a five thousand dollar computer."
  - Bruce Sterling
  
  
• "Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past."
  - George Orwell, 1984
  
  
• "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; but the point is to change it."
  - Karl Marx
  
  
• "The tragedy of such a fate lies not merely in the unfair treatment to which these minorities are automatically subjected in social and economic matters, but also in the fact that under the suggestive influence of the majority most of the victims themselves succumb to the same prejudice and regard their kind as inferior beings."
  - Albert Einstein
  
  
• "There is nothing more consistent than a racist humanism, since the European has only been able to become a man through creating slaves and monsters."
  - Jean-Paul Sartre

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