Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
– Abbie Hoffman, “Steal This Book”
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
– Charles De Gaulle, “Les Mots du General”
During the Great Depression, Germans rallied to one-man-one-party rule, uniforms, flags and rifles, mass rallies, racial hatred, and appeals to national glory. What would happen in other countries if small businessmen, housewives, artisans, white-collar workers, and students felt betrayed by an alien political establishment, a fraying welfare net, and chronic economic dislocations?”
– Claudia Koonz
I have only some initials to say: NAFTA; GATT; WTO; IMF. Strike, the CEO’s and polititcians say, and instead of bringing foreign workers to the factory, we’ll simply move the factory to the foreign workers. And if the foreign workers strike, so will the death squads.
– Derrick Jensen, “The Culture of Make Believe”
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
– Douglas Adams
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don’t you know the difference between the two economic systems? Under capitalism man exploits man. But, under communism, it’s just the other way around.
– Emil Vrabie
Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
– Frank Dane
Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex.
– Frank Zappa
I am convinced that we can do to guns what we’ve done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control.
– George L. Roman
I stand by all the misstatements I may have made.
– George W Bush
Politics is made up of two words. “poli” which is Greek for “many”, and “tics”, which are bloodsucking insects.
– Gore Vidal
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblin, all of them imaginary.
– H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.
– H.L.Menken
The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that they are thieves.
– Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
– Jon Stewart
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We don’t allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
– Joseph Stalin
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought, which they never use.
– Kierkegaard
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge, even when there is no river.
– Nikita Khrushchev
You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.
– Nobel Prize-Winning Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
– Orson Welles (1915-1985)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
– Winston Churchill