What is your favorite quote these days?

[nevergiveup]

"action is the anecdote to despair" Joan Biaz

[Senior citizen]

1. Part of what Abraham Lincoln said.

That part that goes, "....you can fool some of the people all of the time...."

Check my sig. If you haven't read those three books, you WILL get fooled again.

On edit: Sig not up. Indispensable Enemies, by Walter Karp, Crossing the Rubicon, by Michaeal Ruppert, and All Our Relations, by Winona LaDuke.

[davekriss]

2. Offerred as narrative...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
--- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
--- Malcolm X

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is truly a revolutionary act.
--- George Orwell

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.
--- Martin Luther King

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
--- Mohandas K Ghandi

If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice.
--- Noam Chomsky

Now. Or never.
--- Henry David Thoreau

[Lefty48197]

3. "I wish we lived in the times when I could challenge you to a duel"

Zell Miller - CLASSIC!

[Mallifica]

4. "Never forget what they did to you"

"Never let them know that you remember"

-random bathroom wall earlier this week

[MisterP]

5. Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
--Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785) Query 18

[depakid]

6. Choosing pills

"You take the blue pill and the story ends.
You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." ~Morpheus

[Marnieworld]

7. ghandi

First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win

I think it describes the whole fight for fair elections we are in. We just beginning to be fought on this.

[ever_green]

16. I like that one.

[ever_green]

18. Actually....

I think it describes the people who have shed affiliation to either major party and are speaking of corruption, Skull & Bones/Illuminati, the 9/11 scam, etc...
Many are still ignoring us, some are now laughing, still others fighting...I hope we win. If we do, the whole of humanity wins.

[UpsideDownFlag]

8. "Fuck"

from any number of actors in BoonDock Saints.

[More Than A Feeling]

9. "Nothing is over until WE decide it is!"- Senator John "Bluto" Blutarsky

(D)

Damn those Germans and their Pearl Harbor bombing ways!

[proud patriot]

this one from Thomas Paine

"It's the duty of the patriot to protect
his country from it's government"

[Outrider]

10. Ben Franklin

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin


Though I have recently seen some conservative nutcases claim that this quote is justification for any actions that Bush may take to provide "security."

[zann725]

11. Here's a few from a "Quote" collection of mine...

that seems to apply to what we're going through:
1) "Because our cause is just, we can not fail." (S.B. Anthony)
2) "When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." (Harry Truman)
3) "I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice." (Camus)
4) "First one, then two of us -- pretty soon they'll think it's a movement." (A. Guthrie)
5) "If an issue is morally right, it will eventually be Political." (Jesse Jackson)
6) "What we see, we SEE; and SEEING is changing." (Adrienne Rich)
7) "One has no choice but to make a pessimistic analysis of a situation, but when one reaches the time for action, one has no choice but to act with hope." (Gramsci)

And a few anonymous quotes:
1) "The hardest thing to learn in Life is which bridge to cross, and which to burn."
2) "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have left go."
3) "Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street."
4) "Waiting is the most active state of all. In it lies the beginning of all action...the exact moment to strike."

Oh, and my most UNfavorite quote repeated so often lately in MSM:
"We're not really expecting to change the outcome of the Election, but..."

[indigobusiness]

12. If you come for the kisses...

You must stay for the farts.

[Artemis Bunyon]

13. "Never fuck with a Kubrick fan."

From that new movie, 5-25 77

[grasswire]

14. nietzsche

Without music, life is a mistake

Always my favorite quote, especially when things are down.

[intheflow]

15. MLK, Jr.

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

[Menshevik]

17. noel coward

"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."

[Snotcicles]

19. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were

a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

[Snotcicles]

20. Another Mark Twain

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

[proudbluestater]

21. Pride Goeth Before a Fall

I've had it up to HERE with the rignt wing-nuts postulating about their mandate and how they intend to change this country for the worse.

[Kurovski]

22. Here on DU, Patsy Stone has posted this:

"The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep." - Sun Tzu

I like that.

[Piperay]

23. 'The higher the monkey climbs

the more of his ass you see'...not exactly word for word but something to that effect.