QOTD category archive

Via Mr FeastingonRoadKill:

“Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you’re not their customer, you’re their product.”

George Jean Nathan:

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Voting is not a right. It is a duty.

Joe:

We cannot single out people based on the way they look.

Atrios:

Kind of fun watching all these opponents of taxes and big government insisting that they need and want help from the big, evil federal government. Still, we’ll give it to them, cause ya know, it’s the right thing to do.

Doug Larson, from the Quotemaster:

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from the Quotemaster.

If you board the wrong train, it’s no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Mark Twain:

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Samuel L. Clemens:

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Ulysses Grant, from the Quotemaster:

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Edward R. Murrow, from the Quotemaster:

Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.

Clarence Darrow, from the Quotemaster:

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

John Milton, via the Quotemaster:

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Shaun Mullen:

. . . my big takeaway has been that the war lovers who beat the drum so vigorously . . . never paused to consider the consequences.

Follow the link and read the entire post. It is worth three minutes.

Ingrid Bergman, from the Quotemaster:

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Pete Seeger, from the Quotemaster:

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.

Otto von Bismarck, who also said, “Politics is the art of the attainable,” via the Quotemaster:

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Aside:

Some of my friends who are continually gnashing their teeth because Mr. Obama has not attained Perfection in Our Time(tm) need to grow up and remember this.

The Booman:

But I don’t want them (Democrats–ed.) to act like the Republicans. I don’t want the Democrats to shut down the government, lie incessantly, poison the minds of their base against the government, call for special prosecutors every two seconds, or incite violence and intimidation against opposing lawmakers.

The GOP is not a healthy party, and we are not a healthy country.

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James Madison foresaw, among other things, the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, and the Glorious and Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq. From the Quotemaster:

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad.

Albert Einstein from the Quotemaster:

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Tyron Edwards, via the Quotemaster:

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.