Gah, just found out the other quote thread was closed. Meh.

How's this for current consideration?
(Our Senate is hopeless, imho.)

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman,
orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

"The United States does not torture."
George W. Bush

_{And I'll buy that bridge in Brooklyn now.}

Rather pissy and thanks for your post.

Although pissy at the moment, I rather love hearing the thoughts of others. Just saying, and don't think I don't edit the bozos.

From Alexis Zorbas (the movie, though the book is also great):

quote:

God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive
[slaps table]
If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me.

quote:

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

quote:

Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.

Enjoying Mikis Theodorakis' soundtrack.

quote:
God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive
[slaps table]
If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me.

This is interesting, as an elder-former nudist. What a concept. I am now practicing "slapping" to see what comes near.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Tse-Tung

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse-Tung

quote:

Originally posted by Witness:
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Tse-Tung

nice timing.

quote:

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

- Donald Knuth

All hail the Knuth!

um, who?

Burn the heathen!

certainly one way of staying warm.

quote:

I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd.

- Louis Theroux

quote:

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse-Tung

Reminds me of

"Quantity has a quality all its own"
Stalin (when the Soviet army was criticized for its poor quality.)

It is easy to say this when you don't care how many troops you lose.

quote:

A turbonegro is a large, well-equipped, armed black male in a fast car, out for vengeance. We are his prophets.

- Thomas Seltzer (Happy Tom)

quote:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead
US anthropologist
(1901 - 1978)

quote:

From Alexis Zorbas

JRE, I loved the movie and the book, too. There's also Christ Recrucified (which I think is nearly as good as Zorba) and The Last Temptation. Kazantzakis is such a lucid writer - I mean the writing is like a fable rather than a novel, and always, always, tragic.

"...because if you ah, you know, if you dissect a frog, you kill it..."
- Noel Fielding, Johnathan Ross Show, 11-30-07 interview

A tragic indicator of the values of our civilization is that there's no
business like war business.
-Douglas Mattern, peace activist (b. 1933)
meh!