Inspirational quotes for the day

[theHandpuppet]

Please add your own!

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." (Abraham Lincoln).

[katinmn]

1. here's one

“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell

[annabanana]

2. Those who can make you believe absurdities....

can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire

[Lochloosa]

3. Just read my sig. line....

[ET Awful]

4. What difference does it make to the dead,

the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

- Gandhi

[splat@14]

5. I support my country always, and my government when it deserves it

Mark Twain

[msrbly]

6. Two of my favorites . . .

"Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty" --Mahatma Gandhi

"Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." --Mahatma Gandhi

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. A couple from H.L. Mencken

"The cosmos is a gigantic fly wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.
Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride."


"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless,
the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but
also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos;
He will set them above their betters."

[toddaa]

8. Sage advice

If you're doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit. Not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

William S. Burroughs