Quotes, June 2002
No quotes May 13-June 12 due to vacation in the US
13. I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your assholes!
- Chevy Chase in "Vacation"
14. Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.
- Woody Guthrie, "This land is your land"
15. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
- Alfred Tennyson, from "Ulysses"
16. The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.
- Sir Peter Medawar
17. Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real
owners.
- E. Joseph Cossman
18. 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
19. Never underestimate a woman - unless you're talking about her age or her weight.
- Unknown
20. Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
- Robert Anton Wilson
21. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- Henry Adams
22. Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
- Cyril Connolly
23. If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that
puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants.
Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency,
justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.
- Dennis McKinsey
24. Tariffs, quotas and other import restrictions protect the business of the rich at the expense of high cost of living for the poor. Their intent is to deprive you of the right to choose, and to force you to buy the high-priced inferior products of politically favored companies.
- Alan Burris
25. No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- Benjamin Franklin
26. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith
27. We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
-William L. Comer
28. The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
29. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton
30. No one would have remembered the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
- Margaret Thatcher
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