by -- Brando -- » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:08 am
"Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?" -- William A. Turnbow
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power." --Benito Mussolini
"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world — in the field of advertizing — and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours." --Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S.
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." --Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." --Sir Winston Churchill
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." --Amschel Mayer Rothschild
"The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty -- and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H.L. Mencken
"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." --Frank Zappa
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson
"The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable." --U. S. Privacy Study Commission, 1977
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." --Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." --Albert Einstein
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and thus clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken
"When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws have freedom."
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.