Quotes

That's called an election

Submitted by redkabbage on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 09:22

"The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election."

-- Noam Chomsky
http://thirdworldtraveler.com

More powerful than guns

Submitted by redkabbage on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 18:52

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”

-- Josef Stalin
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Too many books

Submitted by redkabbage on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 18:50

"To read too many books is harmful."

-- Mao Zedong
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There is an old arabic saying...

Submitted by redkabbage on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 20:59

"Trust in Allah, but keep your camel tied."

-- old arabic saying, OSS
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Bankers as Feudal Lords

Submitted by redkabbage on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:42

"The powers of financial capitalism had [a] far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."

-- Carroll Quigley, 'Tragedy and Hope'
http://howtheworldreallyworks.info

A beginning is a delicate time

Submitted by redkabbage on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 09:46

I tell you a beginning is a delicate time
'Cause thats the place to brace yourself for a hell of a rhyme
I'm outta reach in my sietch when you're back on Geidi Prime
I ain't fakin, I've awaken to beats attracting wormsign.
Sippin' gin and juice because it sets my mind in motion
Even on Arrakis make bitches wetter than the ocean
She asks about my homeworld just like a dreamt she would
And when I get up in her she go mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Shai Hulud!

-- Jimmy James, avclub comment
http://www.avclub.com/articles/paramount-gives-up-on-making-new-dune-fil...

Everything's different

Submitted by redkabbage on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 17:45

"Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed."

-- Irene Porter
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The CIA's Amorality

Submitted by redkabbage on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 22:16

"In my en years with the Agency I only recall one case of many hundreds where a man who had joined the Agency felt some scruples about the activities he was asked to carry on."

-- Allen Dulles, CIA Director, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, p. 244
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Banks Own the Congress

Submitted by redkabbage on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 12:40

"And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."

-- Senator Dick Durbin, D-IL
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193...

Nothing new under the sun

Submitted by redkabbage on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 00:05

"There is no new thing under the sun."

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9
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Fun Fact

  • The highest score in a college football game was 222-0. It was the powerhouse Georgia Tech against Cumberland College, 1916. Ga. Tech’s coach was John Heisman, whom the Heisman trophy is named after.

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