posted September 22, 2004 03:21 PM              

--Graffiti at Bromley, In War

"If voting could change anything, it would be illegal." --Graffiti

"All racists who are prepared to die for their contry, please do that now."
-- Graffiti

Fighting for peace is like f-ing for virginity. ... Graffiti

Graffiti - Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.

Graffiti - If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

...

posted September 22, 2004 11:28 PM            

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
-Mark Twain

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
-- Aesop

"We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
-- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice from 1916-1939.

"Of course, I have as much power as the President has."
-- Bill Gates, in "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth", Wired, November 2000.

"If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, 'Your honor before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. But if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign contribution. We should call it a bribe."
-- Janice Fine, Dollars and Sense magazine.

"It is [free] market fundamentalism that has rendered the
global capitalist system unsound and unsustainable...market
fundamentalism is today a greater threat to open society than
any totalitarian ideology."
-- George Soros, legendary billionaire Wall Street marketeer
from "The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Open Society
Endangered", 1998.

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"
-- Paulo Freire.

posted September 23, 2004 02:40 AM              

LOL Randall!! I know, that quote cracked me up as well. ...

(for Randall )Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
Dennis Miller

There is no right way to do wrong.
-Unknown

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate ...LOL

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato .....Rock on Plato!!!!!

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~Will Rogers

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~W.C. Fields

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993

Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

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. ~Albert Einstein

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown

Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic