Quotes

Edmund Burke

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Oscar Wilde

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar Wilde

David Brin

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

— David Brin

E.F. Schumacher

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
— E.F. Schumacher

Molly Ivins

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We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there.
— Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins

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The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.
— Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins

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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols. Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
— Molly Ivans

Molly Ivins

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
— Molly Ivans

Bertrand Russell

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
— Bertrand Russell

Noam Chomsky

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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
— Noam Chomsky