True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire
~Cesar Chavez
Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of justice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those who they oppress.
~Frederick Douglass
There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for
more than 2,000 years, and the government is moving in that direction.
~Larry Flynt
Democracy only works if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves
and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. The sheep's going to lose every time."
~Larry Flynt
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Ben Franklin
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
~Milton Friedman
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Ghandi
If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But if its real, you'll feel it.
~Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie
The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
~Herbert Samuel
If you're not here to kick ass, get out.
~JMS
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you
~Nietzshe
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
~Plato
You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
~President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) The American President
The symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.
~President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) The American President
The more actions there are that are said to be taboo, the more harmful sexual deviancy will occur in a society?
~Unknown
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
~Unknown
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
~Unknown
Nothing is impossible unless you make it impossible.
~Unknown
War does't determine who is right, it determines who is left.
~Unknown
People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~Unknown
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
~Unknown
One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.
~Rosalind Coward [British author. Our Treacherous Hearts, ch. 9 (1992)]
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
~Roger Ebert
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forego their use.
~Galileo
We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
~Colonel Walter E. Kurtz "Apocalypse Now"
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
~Gloria Leonard
This is more miserable than the most miserable peepshow I have ever seen and far more awful and suggestive than any pornographic film I have ever seen...entirely uninteresting
~Clancy Sigal - From a review of "Psycho"
If a gal is in her bedroom undressing and a guy looks in the window, he is labeled a peeping tom. If the guy is in his bedroom and is undressing and a gal looks in, he is then labeled a exhibitionist.
~Unknown
Girls are like parking spaces....The good ones are taken and the rest are handicapped
~Unknown
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe
together.
~Unknown
If you took the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body.
~Unknown
Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or
a complete exhibitionist
~Phil Zimmerman
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
~Tallulah Bankhead
Now here come two words for you; shut the fuck up.
~Robert DeNiro "Midnight Run (1988)
Of all the things I have lost I miss my mind most of all.
~Ozzy Osborne
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What
the hell good would that do?
~Unknown
Beware the Angel of Death, the Ides of March, Strangers with Candy, Used Car Salesmen, Midgets with
Machine Guns, Rabid Dogs, Purple People Eaters, Psycho Killers, Internet Junkies, and Smurfs.
Especially Smurfs.
~Michael Goodwin
I'm studying right now. I'll be back sometime in the future-- unless I'm studying time travel at which
point I may return yesterday. :-) In any case, I'll talk to you later. Bye.
~Michael Goodwin
This is not an away message. You are not actually reading words on your computer screen. This is all
just a figment of your overactive imagination. See a psychiatrist. Go away.
~Michael Goodwin
Completing school is like trying to break the lightspeed barrier. Except that its the papers that get more massive as things speed up... unfortunately.
~Michael Goodwin
I'm dead, for tax purposes. Leave me a message, or some money, or both.
~David Lash