Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“Wonderful, is it not, the state is empowered with the unique ability to investigate its own lies and the power of the media and academia to demonize any who would question its veracity, and the support of Boobus, whose livelihood depends on the state’s power to redistribute the wealth of the nation from producers to parasites.”
Michael Gaddy
　
“The foremost or indeed the sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

“We'll never see confession and penance from chickenhawks, because they have no guilt. And it's a lot easier to admit guilt than shame. And chickenhawks' shame and cowardice is something they will not, cannot, admit. So they project it onto others.”
Bob Wallace

“Religion has no business being the basis of any rule that is applied to those who do not follow that particular religion. What is "moral" to one religion is "an abomination" to another. Stick with the few rules that predate and transcend religion: Don't initiate or accept force, and don't initiate deceit.”
Kent MacManigal

“Government is overhead. Government doesn't generate a profit or produce any marketable goods or services to willing consumers. It simply redistributes other people's money – or other people's jobs - and ensures the cream is scraped into its own pocket in the process.”
Garry Reed

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can’t all be worth dying for.”
Joseph Heller

“Who lines their pockets, and what are their goals? That is what we always want to know for actual political science, let alone Fed analysis.”
Lew Rockwell

"Stay out of the way as government dies and be prepared to fight any new Rulers who arise to "fill the void". Make sure there is not ever a "power vacuum" by keeping power where it belongs: in the hands of the individuals."
Kent MacManigal

"The world is expensive enough just to conquer, let alone subsidize. Pax Americana was never a sustainable system, we run the Jim Morrison of empires, and not a thought is ever wasted for any consequences past the immediate."

C. J. Maloney
　
“I, on the other hand, don’t really give a f*ck.”
Don Emmerich, commenting on the useless hubbub over Sarah Palin’s Newsweek photo.

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From the Darkness:

“Under the proposal, the U.S. Department of Transportation would do for transit what it does for airlines and Amtrak: set and enforce federal regulations to ensure that millions of passengers get to their destinations safely.”
Washington Post, about the coming nationalization of subways and intrastate light rail systems

“In a globalized world there is no domestic solution.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Head of the IMF.

"It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession."
B. Obama [Then why did you help create such a debt?!]

"We have now reached a point where humanity is approaching the brink of disaster."
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the U.N. Population Fund's executive director

"With conspiracy talk-show host Alex Jones leading the way, one of the most disturbing trends in 2009 has been the resurrection and proliferation of some of the same anti-government conspiracy theories that so riled up domestic extremists in the 1990s.”
From a recent report from The Anti-Defamation League

“Well, I think domestically a threat that we’re facing right now is the dithering and hesitation in sending a message to the terrorists that we’re going to claim what Ronald Reagan claimed. Our motto is going to be: “We win, you lose.” The way that we do that is allow McChrystal to have the reinforcements that he’s asking for in Afghanistan. That sends that message to the terrorists over there that we’re going to end this thing with our victory. We need to start facing Iran with tougher and tougher sanctions that need to be considered.”
Sara Palin, the so-called “Rogue.”

“2009 is also the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.”
Herman Van Rompuy, EU President.

“The decision to try the 9/11 defendants in a civilian court opens up the likelihood that the defendant's right to what is called "discovery" will require providing the defense team with intelligence that will surely make its way back to terrorist allies. These trials should be held in military courts where no such rights exist. Their crimes were acts of war (didn't we go to war as a result?), not the acts of ordinary criminals.”
John F. McManus, president of The John Birch Society

“Well, all the money is fungible, but I think that would be a stated purpose of adding some additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000. They have done incredibly well and I think that it’s important that we pay for it if we possibly can.”
Carl Levin, contemplating how to pay for the USG’s never ending wars.

"This is something we have to do. We're required to maintain order and keep the peace."
Ozark, AK Police Chief Jim Noggle, defending the use of a taser against a 10 year old girl.