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thewayneI started collecting these decades ago. Amazing how apt many are and from people who have been dead decades, if not centuries.
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. -Frank Wilhoit
They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery. -They Live (movie), 1989
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Many more under the cut...
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. -Terry Pratchett
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. --William James
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. --Ramsey Clark
Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together --James Madison
Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right. –Adam Grant
Who does not know the truth is simply a fool, yet who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal. -Bertolt Brecht
Everyone is in favour of free speech for people who agree with them. –Noam Chomsky
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying. —Terry Pratchett
People say America is the best country in the world and then they get upset when immigrants show up. Well, when you advertise something, sometimes people buy it. —Hair Kondabolu
When Jesus said to love your enemies, he probably meant to not kill them.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. --Eleanor Roosevelt
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. --Mary Shelley's mother
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” --Isaac Asimov
Ego is an anesthesia provided by nature to deaden the pain of a damnedfool. --Russell W. Duke before the HUAC, January 16, 1953
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. --Nietzsche
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you perform atrocities. --Voltaire
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into shit. --Leonardo Da Vinci
In matters of style, swim with the current. in matters of principle, stand like a rock. --Thomas Jefferson
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. --Winston Churchill
When the idiots on the left and the idiots on the right agree on something, it might just be due to its overwhelming idiocy. --Colonel Korn, Slashdot
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. -Frank Wilhoit
They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery. -They Live (movie), 1989
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Many more under the cut...
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. -Terry Pratchett
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. --William James
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. --Ramsey Clark
Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together --James Madison
Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right. –Adam Grant
Who does not know the truth is simply a fool, yet who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal. -Bertolt Brecht
Everyone is in favour of free speech for people who agree with them. –Noam Chomsky
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying. —Terry Pratchett
People say America is the best country in the world and then they get upset when immigrants show up. Well, when you advertise something, sometimes people buy it. —Hair Kondabolu
When Jesus said to love your enemies, he probably meant to not kill them.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. --Eleanor Roosevelt
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. --Mary Shelley's mother
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” --Isaac Asimov
Ego is an anesthesia provided by nature to deaden the pain of a damnedfool. --Russell W. Duke before the HUAC, January 16, 1953
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. --Nietzsche
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you perform atrocities. --Voltaire
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into shit. --Leonardo Da Vinci
In matters of style, swim with the current. in matters of principle, stand like a rock. --Thomas Jefferson
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. --Winston Churchill
When the idiots on the left and the idiots on the right agree on something, it might just be due to its overwhelming idiocy. --Colonel Korn, Slashdot
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Date: 2026-02-09 08:49 am (UTC)