"A good song should make you wanna tap your feet and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cop cars and set fire to the suburbs. I’m only interested in writing great songs." Tom Morello Guitarist & Political Activist Rage Against The Machine
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein
"Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way, watch your honey drip I can't keep away."
"All I ask for when I pray, steady rollin' woman gonna come my way. Need a woman gonna hold my hand, and tell me no lies, make me a happy man."
Led Zeppelin
(lyrics extracted from the song "The Black Dog")
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern."
William Blake (1757-1828)
(The quote that inspired the name for the rock band "The Doors".)
"Crime is contagious...... if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
Justice Louise Brandeis
"Silence gives consent."
Canon Law
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Latin proverb
(English Translation: "Who will police the police?")
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
Jean-Jacque Rousseau
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln
"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant."
An extract from Mencken's Creed
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Edward Abbey
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith (1787)
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."
H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy
"I may be drunk, Madam, but in the morning, I will be sober, and you will still be ugly."
Winston Churchill
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
President Ronald Reagan
"Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner."
D'Arcy J. M. Cain (15/10/1997)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking
"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists of nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."
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