Let's Post Some Quotes

[sweetpotato]

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

~c.wright mills

[Drew263]

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson

--My favorite--
Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Benjamin Franklin

Excessive taxation will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Thomas Jefferson


--Ok this is really my favorite--
"Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Ben Franklin

[Drew263]

This first one seems very appropriate on the AMT....

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

[melodious]

Love lift us up where we BELONG, where the EAGLE flies....

[melodious]

14.A GOOD MIXTURE is 70 percent faith and 30 percent science. Faith in the ART OF PEACE will show you how to understand the intricacies of modern science.

[he still stands]

"Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When you put the blame on society, then you end up turning to society for the solution. .... There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve of imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. Yuk."

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."

And finally, the most relevant for this forum...

"Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics."

[tybird]

"That kangaroo stole my ball!!!" Rodney Dangerfield

[beachdweller]

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." – Tolstoy

"The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice." –Unknown

"It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." -Malcolm Forbes

"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -Thomas Jefferson

"It is better to have a government in fear of its people than to have a people in fear of their government." –Unknown

"...see here's the thing, it's a presidential election year, and although it doesn't feel like it most days, your vote counts..and your voice counts. We've been tricked into thinking that it doesn't, but it does. Choose to use your voice. If you don't..use your voice, someone else will speak for you, believe me. Think for yourself and question authority." Maynard James Keenan

" You're the only one who knows who you are. I hope you know who you are. If you don't know who you are, figure it out. Cause you are somebody. And I'm probably stating the obvious, but I just thought I'd do it anyway. So if you feel like you've got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you can't speak, take it off, speak up, speak your mind, shout it out, let em hear, shout it out...." - Ed Vedder

"I wish I was the President, I wouldn't go to war, I'd communicate and negotiate, isn't that what Presidents are for?" Ed Vedder

[melodious]

"Gotta love the naked rule"

[beachdweller]

"Gotta love the naked rule"

I've seen that before...hmmm love scrubs, lol

[Commy]

The truth is so often the reverse of what has been told us by our culture that we cannot turn our heads far enough around to see it.

Howard Zinn.

[Commy]

Perhaps the worst consequence of WWII is that it kept alive the idea that war could be just.

Howard Zinn-who fought in WWII.

[beachdweller]

Perhaps the worst consequence of WWII is that it kept alive the idea that war could be just.

Howard Zinn-who fought in WWII.

I like this one, WWII was just, but preventable, but it is used as the why war works

[melodious]

15.CONFLICT BETWEEN material and spritual science creates pysical and mental exhaustion, but wehn matter and spirit are harmonized, all stress and fatigue disappear.

[harmless_little_f***]

'Brevity is the highest........... '