Quoth the Pithy Elders
100 Timeless Zingers to Chew On
Some of the Best Quotes Ever: Enjoy!
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
– Napoleon Bonaparte
"One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress."
- John Adams
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children."
- Haida Proverb
"America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create and control... This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly."
- Bibi Netanyahu
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"The strongest shield and safeguard for all men, especially for the masses against tyrants, is mistrust of those in power."
- Demosthenes
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
- Marcus Aurelius
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
- Dale Carnegie
"We have destroyed our democracy to an extent the terrorists never could have. We've changed our democracy into a semi-police state."
- William Binney
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
- George Orwell
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Third-rate men, of course, exist in all countries, but it is only here that they are in full control of the state and with it of all the national standards."
- H.L. Mencken.
"Fools disregard their lives for the sake of desires. Even though they trouble themselves mentally and physically by their cravings, they are never satisfied, and yet they never give up." - Sun Tzu
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock (trial) and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." - H. G. Wells
"In this singular quest to win the Heartland, the West has bankrupted itself - economically, morally, and most importantly, spiritually. This has led to a political crisis gnawing at the center of Western society." - Tom Luongo
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
"This part of the crisis is over." - Jamie Dimon
"First, out of clutter find simplicity. Second, from discord make harmony. Third, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Einstein
"While not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure all the incentives...were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated." - Justin Castro Trudeau
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"The only thing that really matters in asset allocation is sidestepping some of the pain when the rare, great bubbles break." - Jeremy Grantham
"Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together." - Xi Jinping "I agree." - Putin
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
- Henry Spencer
"An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
- Sun Tzu
"Any man is liable to a mistake; but no one but a downright fool will persist in error."
- Ciceor
"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
- H. L. Mencken
"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy."
- Chris Hedges
"The US blowing up of Nord Stream entailed numerous violations of international law and UN Charter, constituting an act of war against Germany and Russia, and the crime of ecocide. No one can bring the US before the ICC."
- Alfred de Zayas
"There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men."
- Ludwig von Mises
"To robbery, slaughter and plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they create a wilderness and call it peace."
- Calgacus, AD 84
"The illiterate of the 21st century, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler
"It's mostly scams and memes when you get down to it."
- Caroline Ellison on Crypto Currencies
"The economy of imaginary wealth is being inevitably replaced by the economy of real and hard assets."
- V. Putin
"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."
- Mark Twain
"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
- John Adams
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
- Edward Gibbon
"Everyone in China should be allowed to protest, we will continue to make sure that China knows that we will stand up for human rights and with people who express their opinions."
- Justin Castro (Except in Canada)
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."
- Thomas Paine
"Most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, but they will worship error when it affords them a subsistence."
- Goethe
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
- Edward Gibbon
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
- William J. Casey, CIA Director
"When a learned man argues with an idiot two fools debate."
- Fu-shi
"The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [world population] by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.'"
- Bill Gates 2010 TedX Talk
"The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.'"
- Harry Browne
"Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into a plutocracy, and are captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented."
- Mark Twain
"The economy of imaginary wealth is being inevitably replaced by the economy of real and hard assets"
- Vladimir Putin, September 2022
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
- Henry David Thoreau
"We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction."
- Harry Truman
"We just don't need the vast majority of the population."
- Yuval Noah Harari WEF
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein
"All wars have reasons, but only peace makes sense."
- Marco Tarquinio
"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever."
- Aristophanes
"You need to get to go and need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home."
Kamala Harris
"Vaccines - because of the high degree of transmissibility of this virus - don't protect overly well, as it were, against infection."
Anthony Fauci
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
Maximilien Robespierre
"What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries..."
Klaus Schwab 2017
"Look, the average Democrat voter is just plain stupid. They're easy to manipulate. That's the easy part."
Hillary Clinton 2005
"What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders."
Klaus Schwab at Harvard 2017
"Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton
"Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted."
Marcus Aurelius
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Thomas Paine 1776
"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
Henry Kissinger
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech."
Benjamin Franklin
"Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has, it has stolen."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic."
Benjamin Franklin
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
Joseph Goebbels
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
Edward Gibbon
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"If you believe that the West can craft sanctions that maximize pain for Russia, while minimizing financial stability risks in the West, you could also believe in unicorns."
Zoltan Pozsar
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."
John Adams
"Credibility of US dollar and euro 'destroyed'."
Vladimir Putin
"War is a product of despotism. Those who want to fight war must only fight despotism."
Leo Tolstoy
"If you believe that the West can craft sanctions that maximize pain for Russia, while minimizing financial stability risks in the West, you could also believe in unicorns."
Zoltan Pozsar
"Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."
Titus Livius 59 BC - 17 AD
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs. When he first appears, he is a protector."
Plato
"Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."
George Orwell
"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."
George Bernard Shaw
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they, and not the leaders of the government, control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency. Their sole object is gain."
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you."
Benjamin Franklin
"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles."
Unknown
"There may be more beautiful times, but this is ours."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies."
Robert J Moriarty
"We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but, they are still lying."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."
Alexander Pope
"I am not a friend of a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
Thomas Jefferson 1787
"The closer the crash of the empire, the crazier its laws are."
Marcus Tulius Cicero
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone be believed by the masses."
Plato
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
Harlan Ellison
"My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either."
Christopher Hitchens
"Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all."
Voltaire
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian."
Henry Ford
"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."
Bill Murray
"A girl called me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."
Rodney Dangerfield
"A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying."
Chris Hedges
"The longer I live, the more convinced am I this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum."
George Bernard Shaw
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
George W. Bush
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
"Mark Turner pretending to be a victim is like Ted Bundy whining because he got turned down as a Girl Scout troop leader."
Bob Moriarty
"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end."
Warren Buffett
"If your brains were dynamite, there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll make an exception."
Groucho Marx
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West
"The trouble ain't there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
Mark Twain
"When I was a boy I was told anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it."
Clarence Darrow
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
Smedley Butler
"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
Eric Hoffer
"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than war."
Homer
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
Tacitus
"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near."
Margaret Thatcher
"Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity."
Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities."
Frank Herbert
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
Napolean Hill
"Every nation gets the government it deserves."
Joseph de Maistre
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
"A land without memories is a people without liberty."
Robert E. Lee
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
H.L. Mencken
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson
"War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away."
Unknown Greek
"My freedom doesn't end where your fear begins."
Candace Owens
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
Jim Morrison
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
ARISTOTLE
"Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend? Don't forget to keep your mask on in between bites. Do your part to keep those around you healthy."
California Governor Gavin Newsom
"This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path."
Reed Albergotti
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
Arnold J. Toynbee
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
Marcus Aurelius
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state."
Tacitus
"For all the virtues will be present when the one virtue, practical wisdom, is present."
ARISTOTLE
"Time stays long enough for those who use it."
LEONARDO DA VINCI
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it."
MAIMONIDES
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
Soren Kierkegaard
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
Thomas Paine
"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
Henry Ford
"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future."
Seneca
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."
Thomas Paine
"Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights."
Alan Greenspan
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
Aldous Huxley
"This crash is not going to have much effect on business."
Arthur Reynolds, Chairman of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, Oct. 24, 1929
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
Thomas Paine
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity -intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. "
HENRY FORD
"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
Isidor Feinstein Stone
"The only thing constant is change"
Heraclitus of Ephesus (~500 BCE)
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."
Leo Tolstoy
"Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster -- and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?"
Vladimir Putin addressing the United Nations in September 2015
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
Marcus Aurelius
"Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?"
Peter Hitchens
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
CONFUCIUS
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."
Thomas Paine
"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."
Tacitus
"The whole concept of sanity in a society where spiritual values have lost their meaning is itself meaningless."
Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable
"In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence."
Kurt Nimmo
"It's dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
"The only element in the universe more common than hydrogen is stupidity."
Einstein
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
Frédéric Bastiat
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
Oscar Wilde
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity"
Sun-Tzu
"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"An attack on Iran would be an act of political folly, setting in motion a progressive upheaval in world affairs. With the U.S. increasingly the object of widespread hostility, the era of American preponderance could even come to a premature end."
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo."
Harry S. Truman
"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."
Daniel Ellsberg
"I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
Jim Garrison
"There never was an idea stated that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
Robert A. Heinlein
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."
Cicero
"I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams
"In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy."
Matt Taibbi
"The intelligence community is 'institutionally committed to objectivity and telling the truth.'"
former CIA director John E. McLaughlin Yea, right. Like they did with Vietnam, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Libya
"Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government."
Thomas Paine
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true."
Henry Kissinger
"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."
Albert Einstein
"News is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity."
Bill Moyers
"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
Petrarch
"America is a land of enchantment, virtually the entire population is in a trance induced by the magic spell of mass media."
William Whitten
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian."
Henry Ford
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
Nuremburg War Tribunal
"Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things."
Virgil
"And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others."
Pliny the Elder
"It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people."
Sen. J. William Fulbright
"Faith in the fiat-currency system relies on the perception that central banks are acting responsibly. Should there be a a loss of confidence in the dollar as a store of wealth, there could be significant capital flight, even a collapse in the currency."
Jesse Felder
"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."
Confucius
"We used to wonder where war lived, what made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
Albert Camus
"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces on the side of destruction and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
J M Keynes
"She goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
John Quincy Adams
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
George Washington
"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
George Orwell, 1984
"I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo."
Harry Truman
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
Thomas Sowell
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams
"Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code."
Robert W. Service
"The working class are not capable of making important decisions. That's why they are 'working class' instead of leaders and professionals."
Sally Wilton
"I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It's - it was like - we had entire training courses."
Mike Pompeo Texas A&M University (April 15, 2019)
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
Matthew 7:15
"Israeli spies have done more harm and have damaged the United States more than the intelligence agents of all other countries on earth combined... They are the gravest threat to our national security."
Admiral Bobby Inman
"You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you can't criticize Israel..."
Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache (she doesn't exist. This was a Mossad disinformation stunt that took readers to a page where they got a virus. But the quote does have a mirror to the heart of Zionism)
"The only adequate guarantee for the uniform and stable value of a paper currency is its convertibility into specie [gold] -- the least fluctuating and the only universal currency."
James Madison
"[Markets] cannot work properly if the money, which they assume as a stable measuring-rod, is undependable. Unemployment, the precarious life of the worker, the disappointment of expectation, the sudden loss of savings, the excessive windfalls to individuals, the speculator, the profiteer--all proceed, in large measure, from the instability of the standard of value."
John Maynard Keynes
"Where they make a desert, they call it peace."
Calgacus, the Scot
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government."
George Washington
"It's stunning how much time US political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans."
Glenn Greenwald
"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
George Carlin
"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."
Winston Churchill
"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service."
USMC General Smedley Butler
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."
George H. W. Bush
"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49."
Thomas Jefferson
"Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory."
Bernard M. Baruch
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."
Thomas Edison
"Cryptocurrencies are, in a nutshell, a bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster."
BIS head Agustin Carstens
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
Wayne Dyer
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire, 1694 - 1778
"If my sons did not want wars, there would be none."
Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschild's wife
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!"
Alexander Hamilton
"He who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."
Thomas Paine
"If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
Henry Ford
"They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger... they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor... They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."
Tacitus
"Calling the cops is like opening a box of chocolates -- you never know which one will kill your dog."
Unknown
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."
Sun Tzu
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
George Orwell
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Edward Abbey
"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again."
Jose Rizal
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise"
Credited to Voltaire
"Predictions are hard, especially about the future."
Mark Twain
"When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency."
Samuel Johnson
"A lie told once is a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."
Joseph Goebbels
"The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender's slave."
Solomon
"The state of Israel must invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the methods of provocation and revenge."
Moshe Sharett, Israeli's first Foreign Minister
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country... the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine, December 1776
"I think that the undecideds could go one way or the other."
George Bush, 1988
"We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H L Mencken
"Step right up folks, cheap debt, low taxes, management fees, dividend recaps, rising leverage...There's no end to the good times!"
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein He left out, "It's different this time."
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC)
"I hear this term deep state all the time. There is no deep state, but there is a deep culture and a commitment to the rule of law, equal protection of the laws."
James Comey April 25, 2018 It would have made more sense on April 1
"Israel should aim to bring about the fragmentation of the Arab world into a mosaic of ethnic and confessional groupings. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation, would prove to be advantageous to Israel in the short term."
Oded Yinon February 1982
"Tell people what they want to hear and you can be wrong indefinitely without penalty. Confirmation is in much higher demand than information."
Morgan Housel
"As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly."
Prov. 26:11
"It is a dark day in our nation when high-level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent. But something is happening, and people are not going to be silenced."
Martin Luther King
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
Tullius Cicero
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
"All states, because they live parasitically off the population on an ongoing basis, depend on eliciting the compliance of the people in some degree; no state can survive a mass refusal to obey."
Etienne de La Boetie (1530-63)
People that OUT-CAIRNED YOU last Summer.
If you thought your pile of "hikers rocks" was the coolest, don't look at these..
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From Pynchon's Proverbs for Paranoids: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.