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President Barack Obama
Frank Ogden
Keith Olberman
Flannery O'Connor [1925-64]
playwright Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]
U.S. Congressman Thomas P. ‘Tip’ O'Neill [1912-94] of Massachusetts physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67]
Simon O'Riordan
P.J. O'Rourke
José Ortega y Gassett [1883-1955]
George Orwell [1903-50]
author Ouida [1839-1908]
Dutch composer George Overmeire
Ovid [43 B.C.E. – 17 or 18 C.E.]
Satchel Paige [1906-82]
Thomas Paine [1737-1809]
Paracelsus [1493-1541]
mystery author Sara Paretsky
Paul Park
Dorothy Parker [1893-1967]
author Robert B. Parker [1932-2010]
Cyril Northcote Parkinson [1909-93]
Louis Pasteur [1822-95]
Blaise Pascal [1623-62]
author Richard North Patterson
Gen. George S. Patton [1885-1945]
Dr. Linus Pauling [1901-94]
Cesare Pavese [1908-50]
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov [1849-1936]
movie director Sam Peckinpah [1925-84]
William Penn [1644-1718]
Pericles [495–429 B.C.E.]
Stephanie Pero
H. Ross Perot
mystery author Ellis Peters [1913-95]
Denne Bart Petitclerc [1929-2006]
Julia Phillips [1944-2002]
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune writer
Eden Philpotts [1862-1960]
Jean Piaget [1896-1980]
Tom Piazza
Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]
Mary Pickford [1892-1979]
Joseph H. Pilates [1880-1967]
British journalist John Pilger
Greek poet Pindar [522?–443 B.C.E.]
Plato [428?-327? B.C.E.]
Plutarch [46?–127 C.E.]
Hercule Poirot character, written by Agatha Christie [1890-1976]
Katha Pollitt
James Poniewozik, Time Magazine columnist
Ferdinand Porsche [1875-1951]
L. Aldin Porter
Neil Postman
Wendell Potter
poet Ezra Pound [1885-1972]
Roscoe Pound [1870-1964]
Anthony Powell [1905-2000]
writer Dawn Powell [1896-1965]
rock legend Elvis Presley [1935-77]
radio talk show host Bill Press
Marcel Proust [1871-1922]
comedian Richard Pryor [1940-2005]
Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911]
author Philip Pullman
Thomas Pynchon
cartoon character Jessica Rabbit
actor George Raft [1895-1980]
Ayn Rand [1905-82]
U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel of New York
Dan Rather
actor Ronald Reagan [1911-2004] Lou Reed
Wilhelm Reich [1897-1957]
Chuck Reid
Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times reviewer
radio talk show host Randi Rhodes
Branch Rickey [1881-1965]
E.C. Riegel [1879-1953]
Phil Rizzo of Valencia, California
Anthony Robbins
Les Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
Kent Allan Robertson of Hillsborough, NC
Kelly Robinson
Arthur Rock actor-comedian Chris Rock
David Rockefeller, Jr.
sculptor Auguste Rodin [1840-1917]
Carl Rogers [1902-1987]
American humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935]
Sax Rohmer [1853-1959], author of the Dr. Fu Manchu novels
Benjamine A. Rooge
Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945] Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919] Elihu Root [1845-1937]
Roger Rosenblatt
author Philip Roth
movie exhibitor Samuel 'Roxy' Rothafel [1882-1936]
painter Mark Rothko [1903-70]
Rothschild Brothers of London
Mayer Amschel Rothschild [1744-1812]
Matthew Rothschild
Prof. Nouriel Roubini, N.Y.U. Stern School of Business
Rousseau
Robert Ruark [1915-65]
Donald H. Rumsfeld Damon Runyon [1880-1946]
John Ruskin [1819-1900]
radio propagandist & ugly male Limp Rushbaugh
Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
Tom Russell
Bayard Rustin [1912-87]
Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio
Russ Rymer
44th President of the United States, 2009-?
• • “Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is
just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” as President-elect {blog 2/2009}
• • “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,
but whether government works.”, Inaugural Address 20 January 2009 {blog 2/2009}
• • “I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.” (on 23 February 2009) {blog 4/2009}
• • “I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way
they are. . . . Not this time. Not now.” (speech to Joint Session of Congress, 9 September 2009) {blog 9/2009}
“Any law, rule, regulation or sanction conceived with industrial age thinking
reverses itself in a communications age environment.” {Issue #28}
“Success is overrated.” {Issue #55}
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers.
My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.” {blog 12/2008}
• • “Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door
and a lost kingdom of peace.” {blog 5/2008}
• • “Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself –
ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity – before he can learn the truth behind
the facts. And the truth is never ugly.” {blog 6/2009}
• • “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” {blog 6/2009}
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1977-87
“All politics is local.” {Issue #60}
• • “Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge
of mystery, surrounded by it.” {Issue #57}
• • “There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science.
The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion,
to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.” {blog 9/2009}
• • “The only thing ... that Objectivism should not tolerate is any political threat
to the freedom necessary to make choices in living.” {Issue #36}
• • “I would define Freedom as the complete absence of coercion.” {Issue #38}
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” {Issue #43}
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness, it is always urgent, here and now without any possibility for postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.” {Issue #11}
• • “Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.”
(in the novel "1984") {Issue #41}
• • “War is peace.” (in the novel "1984")
George W. Bush, 2003: “This war is really about peace.” {Issue #43}
• • “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” {Issue #57}
• • “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” {Issue #65}
• • “In general, one is only right when either wish or fear coincides with reality ... sooner or later
a false belief bumps up against the solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” {blog 1/2008}
• • “There are some things [that] only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.” {blog 2/2008}
• • “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” {blog 2/2009}
“To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.” {Issue #68}
“The map is not the territory / the menu is not the meal / the score is not the music.” {blog 12/2009}
“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.” {blog 6/2010}
“Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.” {blog 6/2009}
• • “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” {Issue #56}
• • “Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth!” {Issue #69}
• • “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” {blog 11/2007}
• • “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” {blog 3/2008}
• • “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance
of being right.” {blog 4/2008}
• • “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” {blog 4/2010}
“I am different. Let this not upset you.” {Issue #70}
• • “[It is] hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking
our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.” {Issue #67}
• • “Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.” {blog 5/2008}
“This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and
Jesus is nowhere to be found.” {Issue #48}
“I require only three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.” {Issue #36}
• • “Martinis taste like John Coltrane sounds.” {Issue #50}
• • “If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms,
and somehow you need to live up to them.” {Issue #64}
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
(aka "Parkinson's Law") {blog 5/2010}
“Chance favors the trained mind.” {blog 5/2010}
• • “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from religious conviction.” (in "Pensees") {Issue #65 & blog 4/2009}
• • “It is force, not opinion, that queens its way over the world, but it is opinion
that looses the force.” {blog 10/2009}
“Politics, like rust, never sleeps.” {Issue #32}
“You don't win wars by giving up your life for your country,
you win by making the other s.o.b. give up his.” {Issue #64}
“How do you have a good idea? Have a lot of ideas and keep the good ones.” {Issue #48}
“One ceases to be a child when one realizes that telling one's troubles
does not make it any better.” {blog 12/2008}
“Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens.
And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which
the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.” {blog 12/2008}
“Life is awful. Ain't it fun to watch?” {Issue #57}
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone
is for it.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take
an interest in you.” (430 B.C.E.) {Issue #43}
• • “The worst thing is to rush into action before the consequences have been properly debated.” {blog 2/2008}
“Behind every successful woman ... is a substantial amount of coffee.” {blog 12/2007}
“People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.” {Issue #43}
“The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.” {Issue #21}
“The best part of anything is working to get it.” {Issue #65}
“Reagan and Bush . . . made the world safe for hypocrisy.” {Issue #33}
“2002 will not enter history's ledger as a good year for civil liberties.” {Issue #27}
“The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for your wits to grow sharper.” {Issue #66}
• • “The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable
of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse,
whether violent, or gradual.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.” {blog 9/2008}
“Some things are still, at this late hour, not for sale and never will be.”
(Oxford American Magazine Nov-Dec 2000) {Issue #16}
• • “Everything you can imagine is real.” {Issue #35}
• • “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” {Issue #57}
• • “To be young, really young, takes a long time.” {blog 2/2008}
• • “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” {blog 4/2008}
• • “Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just
don't have that much vision.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “I don't seek, I find.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” {blog 12/2009}
• • “Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.” {blog 6/2010}
“This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.” {Issue #48}
“Fitness is the first requisite to happiness.” {Issue #36}
“It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.” {Issues #21 & 36} full text of article
“Unsung, the noblest deed will die.” {blog 7/2010}
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.” {Issue #50}
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” {Issue #68}
• • “The world is becoming a difficult place to live in – except for the strong.” (1948) {Issue #68}
• • “Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.” {blog 4/2008}
• • “[Stupidity] is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished.” {blog 8/2008}
“Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.” {blog 8/2009}
• • “Politics has always been a mud fight – better that citizens jump in the trough
than lose interest.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “In the reality-TV era, unstable behavior [has] become a valid career choice.” {blog 12/2009}
“In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams,
decided to build it.” {Issue #37}
“Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.” {Issue #65}
“What's the problem to which this is a solution?” {Issue #36}
“We should be worrying about Wall Street-run health care.” {blog 11/2009}
“What matters is not the idea [that] a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.” {blog 7/2010}
“Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this
subjection is law.” {blog 10/2008}
“There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.” {blog 12/2008}
“For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.” {blog 4/2009}
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.” {blog 4/2010}
• • “The Justice Dept. is the new F.E.M.A.” {Issue #69}
• • “Lobbying is the world's second-oldest profession.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” {blog 8/2009}
“A lie is profanity . . . A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”
{blog 10/2007}
“A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way [that] they ought to be.” {blog 11/2007}
“We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.
'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.” {blog 4/2009}
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.”
(in "Gravity's Rainbow" 1973) {Issue #58}
“I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.” {Issue #42}
“Part of the loot went for gambling and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.” {blog 5/2009}
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“Well, I really think that [George W. Bush] shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.” {Issue #58}
“Courage.” (at the end of his last CBS Evening News broadcast) {Issue #51}
40th President of the United States, 1981-89
• • “Church and state are, and must remain, separate.” {Issue #57}
• • “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize
that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” {blog 4/2010}
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the price of a song?” {blog 5/2009}
“It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.” {Issue #13}
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.” {blog 12/2007}
“It must be death-defying to write a novel.” {Issue #36}
• • “Fight global warming! Be cool.” {Issue #60}
• • “Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does.” {Issue #60}
• • “The emperor has no clue.” {blog 12/2007}
“Luck is the residue of design.” {blog 1/2010}
“The greatest enemy of mankind is ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization
of this comes to man he will, like Sampson, push down the walls of his prison.” {blog 7/2010}
“Every attempt in history to help labor's cause has been objected to. It seems to me that the object
of capitalism needs to be to bring prosperity to people on all levels. Otherwise, it simply becomes
a system based on greed that would be most enhanced by slavery.” {Issue #48}
“If you always do what you have always done then you'll always have what you've already got.” {blog 5/2010}
“You gotta have heart in this world, and compassion,
or else you're a piece of crap just taking up space.” {Issue #37}
• • “Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system.” {Issue #20}
• • “There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country
without any help from Muslim terrorists.” {Issue #27}
“Staying the course in Iraq is tearing the military, the Iraqi people, and our hearts apart.” {Issue #63}
“Things are always darkest before they go pitch black.” {Issue #42}
#244 of the 2003 Forbes 400 Richest Americans list
“This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen
[about] the haves and have-nots.” {Issue #37}
“I see [illegal immigration] as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.”
(interview in Time Magazine, March 2007) {Issue #69}
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis
and the nations will accept the New World Order.” {Issue #69}
“Patience is also a form of action.” {blog 3/2008}
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn – and [to] change.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” {Issue #43}
• • “A company is known by the people it keeps.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “There's nothing as stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing that he is educated in.” {blog 1/2008}
• • “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” {blog 3/2008}
• • “Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.” {blog 9/2009}
• • “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” {blog 9/2009}
• • “The business of government is to keep government out of business – that is,
unless business needs government aid.” {blog 11/2009}
• • “Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.” {blog 4/2010}
• • “Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” {blog 5/2010}
• • “Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.” {Issue #32}
• • “There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.” {Issue #36}
“Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except
for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave
as I want them to.” {blog 11/2009}
• • “You must do the thing [that] you think you cannot do.” {Issue #42}
• • “The giving of love is an education in itself.” {Issue #71}
• • “Small people talk of other people, average people talk of things, great people talk of ideas.”
{blog 10/2007}
• • “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather
than avenge it.” {blog 12/2007}
• • “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” {blog 9/2009}
32nd President of the United States, 1933-45
• • “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
of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” {Issue #46}
• • “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved.” {Issue #48}
• • “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 the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership
of the government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.” {Issue #58}
• • “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned
to walk forward.” {blog 4/2008}
• • “It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead,
and find no one there.” {blog 2/2010}
Republican 26th President of the United States, 1901-09
• • “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.” {Issue #34}
• • “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” {Issue #36}
• • “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” {Issue #47}
• • “In any moment of decision, the best thing [that] you can do is the right thing, the next best thing
[that] you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing [that] you can do is nothing.” {Issue #66}
• • “Great as the provocation has been in dealing with the foes who habitually resort to treachery, murder
and torture against our men, nothing can justify . . . the use of torture or inhumane conduct . . .
on the part of the American Army.” (1902) {blog 12/2007}
• • “All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be
forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders' money for such purposes;
and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping
the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts.”, in 1905 {blog 2/2010}
• • “Ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes
for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.”
in August 1910 speech {blog 3/2010}
• • “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered
by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much
because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” {blog 5/2010}
“About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would-be clients
that they are damned fools and should stop.” {blog 3/2010}
“The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self-regulation, and we might
return it by minding our own business.” (Time Magazine essay 12/2001) {blog 9/2009}
“Old age isn't a battle, old age is a massacre.” {Issue #59}
“Don't give the people what they want, give them something better.” {Issue #49}
“Silence is so accurate.” {blog 6/2010}
“The few who can understand the [Federal Reserve] system will be so interested in its profits, or so
dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class; while on the other hand,
the great body of the people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage
that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps
without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” {blog 11/2009}
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes the laws.” {blog 11/2009}
“At bottom, the 9/11 conspiracy theories are profoundly irrational and unscientific.”
(in The Progressive, October 2006) {Issue #66}
“We are going to have a recession in 2007.” {Issue #66}
“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains.” {Issue #25}
“Nothing works and nobody cares.” {Issue #57}
U.S. Defense Secretary, 2001-2006
• • “I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past – I think the past
was not predictable when it started.” (DoD press briefing 3 April 2003) {Issue #40}
• • “There are known knowns. These are things [that] we know we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things [that] we don't know we don't know.” (DoD press briefing 2003) {Issue #41}
“It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong
– but that is the way to bet.” {blog 3/2010}
{ “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill;
but time and chance happen to them all.” ~~ Judeo-Christian Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11 {blog 3/2010} }
• • “That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble
and happy human beings.” {Issue #66}
• • “The primary reward for human toil is not what you get by it, but what you become by it.” {blog 12/2008}
• • “They have no constitution over there [in England].” {Issue #54}
• • “The feminist movement is just something for ugly women to do.” {blog 10/2008}
• • “The resistance to a new idea increases as the square of its importance.” {Issue #11}
• • “So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.” {Issue #36}
• • “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” {Issue #36}
• • “There is a motive which is stronger than self-preservation: It is the desire to get the better
of the other fellow.” {Issue #45}
• • “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search
for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” {blog 10/2007}
• • “Most people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do.” {blog 1/2008}
• • “What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise
of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.” {blog 9/2008}
• • “I think our own hearts can teach us no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts to make the world a place to live in instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.” {quoted by Felix De Cola on his deathbed} {blog 9/2008}
• • “The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.” {blog 4/2009}
• • “The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.” {blog 1/2010}
• • “It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” {blog 2/2010}
• • “The best life is one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possesive impulses the smallest.” {blog 2/2010}
• • “The next step [in a Fascist movement] is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent,
by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.” {blog 3/2010}
“Something significant has been lost.” {Issue #52}
“God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue.
What the gods require of us is that we not stop trying.” {Issue #36}
“There's going to be a revolution here before the American people agree to a draft.” {Issue #64}
“The Bush administration feels no compunction to honor the truth or seek it;
it conceives truth as a tactic, valuable only insofar as it is useful against one's enemies.”
(editorial in May-June 2005 Mother Jones Magazine) {Issue #53}
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