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"whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process
he does not become a monster. and when you look into an
abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - F.W. Nietzche

i'm keepin' my eyes on the people
.. that's "the prize"
- common

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.- Norwegian Proverb

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life- Robert Louis Stevenson

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.- David Russell

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.- Minon McLaughlin

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.- Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.- Ninon De Lenclos

This will remain a land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.- Elmer Davis

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.- Hannah More

"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
- Brittany Renée


Tis the conflict of the politician, do what the people say, or what your heart tells you is right.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.- Mark Twain

Choice is an element in freedom and there can be no choice without unrealized and precarious possibilities.- John Dewey

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom can exist only where individuality is recognized as having its positive and real existence in the divine being.- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."
–Che Guevara


A great quote form a true revolutionary.
R.I.P Che.

"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion ,dissent and debate"
George Orwell

"Man was given imagination to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humour to console him for what he is"
Francis Bacon

and..

"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist and must be treated seriously"
Mikhail Gorbachev

'The road to hell is lined with good intentions'

A revoltion may well put an end to autocratic despotism and to rapacious or self-seeking oppression, but it will ever produce a true reform in ways of thinking.- Immanuel Kant

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.- Will Rogers

Sometimes, if pious men are to be believed, God's mercies are curiously selective.- Bertrand Russell

The universe is wider than our view of it.- Henry David Thoreau

"Envy is the cause of political division."
-Democritus

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
-Niccolo Machiavelli



Probably the only time I'd agree with Machiavelli, since he's what we in the modern
day (he lived in Renaissance Europe) an imperialist monarchical neocon.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism-ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt


A very true quote from one of this nations greatest presidents.

[edit on 8/7/2007 by iori_komei]

"We cannot let terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile" - 9/9/00


The President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Emerson

"Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!"
-Ikkyū Sojin

He was a Japanese Buddhist monk who lived in the 15th century.

A man far ahead of his time.

If you do the same thing you always did, you get the same thing you always got.-anon.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde


Twas a woman who led me down the road to drink, and I never wrote to thank her.-WC Fields.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

[edit on 9-8-2007 by nixie_nox]

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

This remark comes from the essay “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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[edit on 2007/8/9 by GradyPhilpott]

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
—Somerset Maugham