Notable Quotes

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed...(Bruce Springsteen - 1985)

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it...(Mark Twain - 1876)

People have the power to redeem the work of fools...(Patti Smith - 1988)

Corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working on the prejudices of the people...until wealth is aggregated in a few hands...and the Republic is destroyed...(Abraham Lincoln)

We're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy...(Seal - 1991)

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them...(Albert Einstein)

You must unlearn what you have learned...(Yoda - A long time ago in a galaxy far far away)

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore...(Edward Dahlberg)

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist...(George Carlin)

You can't be neutral on a moving train...(Howard Zinn)

Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you...(Ben Franklin)

Today, the large organization is lord and master, and most of it's employees have been desensitized much as the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs...(Ralph Nader)

Live long and prosper...(Spock, Star Trek - 1966)

Be careful when you fight monsters, lest you become one...(Friedrich Nietzsche)

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors...(Plato)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new...(Henry David Thoreau)

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves...(Elissa Melamed)

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination...(Mark Twain)

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood...(Martin Luther King Jr. -1963)

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations...can never effect a reform...(Susan B. Anthony)

Prejudice is the child of ignorance...(William Hazlitt)

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime...(Aristotle)

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity...(Ralph Nader)

A nation is a society united by delusions about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbors...(William Ralph Inge)

May the force be with you...(Star Wars - 1977)

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die...(Jean Paul Sartre - 1951)

I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell...(Christopher Walken as Bruce Dickinson, Saturday Night Live - 2000)

You think you're better than me, huh?...That's it...It's go time!...Let's see you lift that... C'mon...C'mon...Pump it... Wrong attitude...You're not bringing that trash into my house... Step aside stringbean...I'll show you......I'm gonna take it up a notch...... Mandelbaum!...Mandelbaum!...Mandelbaum!...... Hello doughboy...I'm here to whip you into shape, so grab your jock- if you need one...It's go time!...Drop your purse honey, and pick up that medicine ball...You ready?...All aboard the pain train......What in holy hell?...Is this your diet?...Don't lie to me butter bean...You want to live in a butcher shop, I'm gonna treat you like a piece of meat...You lag...you drag...Get up boy...Get up!...We got a problem here!...Tough it up...This is for real...You got to want it...(Lloyd Bridges as personal trainer Izzy Mandelbaum, Seinfeld episodes - 1997)

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them...(Mark Twain - 1935)

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education...(Wilson Mizner)

Get up!...Stand up!...Stand up for your rights!...(Bob Marley/ Peter Tosh - 1973)

Gimme some truth...(John Lennon - 1971)

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object....(Abraham Lincoln)

A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government...(Thomas Jefferson - 1787)

To be the man, you have to beat the man...(Ric Flair)

Runnin' down a dream...that never would come to me...... Workin' on a mystery...... Goin' wherever it leads......I'm runnin' down a dream... (Tom Petty/ Jeff Lynne/ Mike Campbell - 1989)

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: whose?...(Don Marquis)

If honesty was suddenly introduced into American life, the entire system would collapse...(George Carlin)

These days I'm feeling alright 'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation...(Bruce Springsteen - 1992)

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization...(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Just when you think you have all the answers, I change the questions...(Roddy Piper)

Clowns never laughed before. Beanstalks never grew. Ponies never ran before, til I met you...(Barry Williams as Greg Brady, The Brady Bunch episode - 1971)

Humankind cannot stand very much reality...(T.S. Eliot)

Serenity now!...(Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza...Seinfeld episode - 1997)

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought...(Jonathan Swift)

Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things...(Virgil)

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear...(Thomas Jefferson)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it...Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many...Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books...Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders...Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations...But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it...(Buddha)

Be as you wish to seem....(Socrates)

The one who tells the stories rules the world...(Hopi - American Indian Proverb)

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time...(Steven Wright)