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[ParisianAttackMonkey]

We are, of course, already dead. There is no hope. The machine
is too powerful, the damage too severe. There are too many
child abusers, too many rapists, too many corporations, too many
tanks and guns and airplanes. And I'm just one person; I can't do
anything. You're dead right, so what the hell are you waiting for? An
Irish friend of mine once told me his favorite saying: "Is this a private
fight, or can anyone enter?" Give up. Capitulate. Realize there's no
hope, then have at it. If you're dead, you have nothing to lose and
a world to gain.

- Derrick Jensen

[chiggerbit]

“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”

-Howard Dean

[Pirx]

Whoever stated "the pen is mightier than the sword" forgot about the scissors.
Charles Fort

[chiggerbit]

"If you think back to when we had the draft, people were brought in; they were paid some fraction of what they could make in the civilian manpower market because they were without choices. Big categories were exempted - people that were in college, people that were teaching, people that were married. It varied from time to time, but there were all kinds of exemptions. And what was left was sucked into the intake, trained for a period of months, and then went out, adding no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time, because the churning that took place, it took enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone."

Donald Rumsfeld, Jan 7, 2003

[Pirx]

"Here in the dark I grope, confused, purblind;
I have not seen the glory and the peace;
But in the darken'd mirror of the mind
Strange glimmers fall, and shake me till they cease."

R.W. Buchanan, quoted in D. Davidson,
Rememberances of a Religious Mind
Shakespeare Press, 1912

[trachys]

Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master,
but you can tickle his creatures.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek.

Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

* * *

Pa--ra--nooooiiiia, Pa-ra-noia!
Ain't it grand ta see, that good-time face, again!
Pa-ra-noi-ya, boy oh boy, yer
Just a bit of you-know-what
From way back when!
Even Goya, couldn't draw ya,
Not the way you looked, just kickin' in that door--
Call a lawyer, Paranoia,
Lemme will my ass to you, for-ever-more!

[chiggerbit]

"And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."

- Richard Perle, 9/22/03

[Pirx]

"ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
Charles Darwin

[chiggerbit]

"Now that we can control the weather, create earthquakes and tidal waves and use it as a weapon of war we do not need a treaty."

- Senator Claiborne Pell, Senate Intelligence Committe member, commenting on a USA/USSR treaty signed in 1978

[chiggerbit]

"Every time I brush against Bush I’m reminded that this guy is different."

NYT columnist, David Brooks

[Sweejak]

"You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration . . . or you will pay dearly for it."
-- Sen. Henry Jackson to Italian FM Aldo Moro

"Go ahead and vote against it [Iraq War Resolution] if you want, but you'll never be president of the United States."
-- Robert Schrum to John Kerry


"The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress."

... Disengagement supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians”

-- Dov Weisglass about the Gaza pullout during an interview published in Ha’aretz Oct. 8, 2004 and October 6 2004

[yesferatu]

"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.

[Sweejak]

"The only history that matters is biography"
-- Pyotr Todorovsky

"... pressure on Israel was all for show, ... You know, we have to show that we're doing something. You really shouldn't worry about it."
-- Elliot Abrams to Jewish Republicans

"FOX is a legitimate military target, a propaganda machine for the Reich"
-- MC

"... researchers ought to try to find out if shorter persons are more creative than taller ones because they have more space above their heads."
-- Robert Genn

[Jeff]

"No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The only misfortune is to do so solemnly." - Montaigne

[yesferatu]

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.