Quotes: Misc. Part 6

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.
- Joseph Sobran

The only thing in the middle of the road is a dead skunk.

The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment." 
- Joseph Farah

[C]onsider the real nature of abortion: an aggressive, irresponsible act which denies personal freedom, liberty and justice to a weaker and inconvenient class of people. 
- Bill Barnwell

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
- Joseph Farah

The Left in this country generally believes that the path to social utopia is paved with taxpayers’ dollars.
- Steven LaTulippe

The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed. 
- Vox Day

“Everybody cut seven percent, then we’ll raise taxes” isn’t leadership. It’s like a doctor who, lacking the will or the skill to find the cancerous tumor, cuts a portion off of every organ and raises his fee for doing it. 
- Jerry Agar

Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle---before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
- Thomas Sowell

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand

Vox Day definitions
The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys
The Germans - schnitzel-snarfing stormtrooper spawn 

One cannot help but wonder when blacks will realize the only thing black about white liberals like Kerry and Edwards is their hearts.
- Mychal Massie

I submit the only evil perpetrated upon blinded blacks greater than crack cocaine, is liberal Democrats.
- Mychal Massie

[W]here taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who think they should be even higher because, after all, politicians spend our money far more wisely than we do. The obvious solution I'd propose is that the people in the first group would pay less and those in the second group would pay more. Lots more. 
- Burt Prelutsky

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
- Walter Williams

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty....Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment August 1789

Come on, Mr. Frodo! I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you.
- Sam, Lord of the Rings

Elrond: I give hope to men.
Aragorn: I keep none for myself.

All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.
- Gandalf, Lord of the Rings

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin

Jesus is a better savior than you are a sinner.

[M]odern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.
- Vox Day

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams 

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
- George W. Bush, 2004 acceptance speech

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Douglas Adams

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler 

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 

I have not failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison 

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein 

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
- Doug Engelbart 

Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
- Henry Ford 

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned.
- Pastor Martin Niemöller

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
- Dan Rather, speaking of Bill Clinton in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, May 15, 2001

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.
- Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone. 
- Vox Day

You cannot by reasoning correct a man of ill opinion which by reasoning he never acquired.

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
- Rush Limbaugh

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
- Rush Limbaugh

If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.
- Michael Badnarik, Good to Be King, Chapter 2

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.
- Michael Badnarik, Good to Be King, Chapter 2

Sinners can't find God for the same reason criminals can't find the police.
- Billy Sunday

An excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
- Billy Sunday

Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

"[How] to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?"
– Thomas Jefferson, 1821 

There is an easy solution to every human problem. Neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Menken, as quoted by Grissom on CSI

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.
- Joseph Farah

I listen to NPR in the evenings and read the Bible in the morning to get the other side.
- Caller to Joseph Farah's Radioactive

The cynics say "One man can't do anything." I say "Only one man can do anything." One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.
-John W. Gardner

It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.
- Hudson Taylor

Liberals are against nuclear weapons but have yet to suggest a soy-based substitute that can obliterate cities.
- T-shirt

Liberals are always whining about tolerance, but when I punch them for that they get moody. Hey, be tolerant!
- T-shirt

You can't spell "unethical" without U.N.

A Frenchman will fight viciously and without regard to his own life if you stand between him and a white flag.

During the cola wars, France was occupied by Pepsi for six months.

Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that take your breath away.
- Wil Smith as "Hitch"

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
- Samuel Adams

Being a former fetus myself, I am very pro-life.
- Craige Smith

Dedicated minorities, not half-hearted majorities, will win the day

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
- Joseph Stalin

The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5: Believers

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
Motto of the National Speleological Society

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.
- Ilana Mercer

"Islamikazes"
- Ilana Mercer

"I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation."
- Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR

Abortion should be legal. The government has no right to reach inside my own private death chamber and legislate morality.

There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics.

Feelings may occur, but choice defines us.
- Steve Gauthier

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back.
-- Will Rogers

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
-- Adlai Stevenson 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
-- Benjamin Franklin 

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
-- Tacitus 

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
-- Henry Mencken 

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
-- Henry Mencken 

Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all.
-- Author Unknown 

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
- Burt Prelutsky

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
- Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.

From the Movie Sneakers, 1992:
Whistler (David Strathairn): I want peace on earth, and good will toward men.
Bernard Abbott, NSA (James Earl Jones): We are the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing.

The Matrix cannot tell you who you are.
- Trinity, The Matrix

...the fact the history of science is littered with rejected ideas is not evidence that science is false, but that science is capable of detecting error.
- Greg Moore

After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

There are a million ways not to finish a project, but there’s only one way to finish: Put your head down and grind it out until it’s done.

Communism is the goal
- Roger Baldwin, Founder of the ACLU

God is in the Heavens and He does what He wants. If He wants you to go somewhere, He will get you there. The question is will you go willingly or will you end up there in a pile of whale vomit?

Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.
- Mark 6:31B

Jesus does not take the thirst away. 
He perpetually satisfies it.

Don't just get into the Word, get under the Word. Put yourself under its authority.

Today we breath new air.

When you want to confront someone, pray about it until you don't want to. Only then can you do it in the proper humility.

Go beyond being part of a theological fraternity.
- Doug Halsne

If I had God's power, there is so much I would change.
If I had God's wisdom, I would leave things alone.

Satan will make sure that every construction site in our lives is also a battlefield.

They don't grade here on the curve
We both know what we deserve.
Just as you are
Just a wretch like me
Jesus is for losers
Grace from the blood of a tree
Just as we are 
at a total loss
Jesus is for losers 
broken at the foot of the cross
- Steve Taylor, "Jesus is for Losers"

We have ... mistaken a declaration of war by Islamic terrorists as an aviation inconvenience.
- Craige McMillan

I see very few politicians in either party who wouldn't say or promise anyone anything if it meant they could operate the levers of power another five minutes.
- Craige McMillan

Don't keep the faith. Give it away.

Charity is not a government program.
- Joseph Farah

Would you like to play poker with me with "living" rules?
- Walter Williams

You may watch the world in color, in the corner, burning bright.
You may watch the world in color, but you dream in black and white.
- Steve Taylor

[An] act of the Congress of the United States ... which assumes powers ... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.
– Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:383

The U.S. Constitution is not an NFL playbook you can just alter, change or make up plays for to suit the next natural disaster or desired war.
- Devvy Kidd

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
- Alan Simpson

When asked of his "church preference", Alan Simpson answered "Red brick".

The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves of the lessons contained in 6,000 years of recorded history, we have a tendency to believe that the current status quo is pretty much how the world has been and how it will always be.
- Vox Day

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts people? [Because] it depraves and corrupts me.
- Malcolm Muggeridge

Politicians bribe us with our own money.

I am not Fonda Jane.
- Joseph Farah

If there is no other use discovered of electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain man humble.
- Benjamin Franklin

We know what line is crooked, 'cause we know what's straight.
- Newsboys, "Believe"

Without Him I understand nothing; without Him all is darkness. ... Every period has its manias. I regard Atheism as a mania. It is the malady of the age. You could take my skin from me more easily than my faith in God.
- Henri Fabre (1823-1915), French biologist

A government is a body of people usually ungoverned.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

A pastor was given a medal for being the most humble person in the church. It was taken away when he wore it.

Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is being willing to dance to it right now.

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like?
1. They would all attend every service
2. They would all tithe
3. They would all work in the church
4. They would all go to hell
- Adrian Rogers

Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower.
- June Hunt

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
- Oswald Chambers

I have never met a person I could despair of, or lose all hope for, after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
- Oswald Chambers

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
- Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon

Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.
- G. K. Chesterton 

They are ill discovers who say there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon

[Al Gore is] producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Joseph Farah

More speed, less haste.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard

GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show!.... You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!
- William Shatner on Saturday Night Live 1986

We spend money we don't have to buy things we don't want to impress people we don't like.
- Dave Ramsey

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
- Dr. Seuss

Fall seven times.
Stand up eight.

What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers.
-Vox Day