“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party..and it has two right wings”
Gore Vidal


"A government that has grown large enough to provide everything you need....... is also large enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jeffereson


"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. "
George Carlin


“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
Groucho Marx


"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato


"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson


"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."
Bertrand Russell


"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
George Carlin


"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
Will Rogers


"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw


"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
Thomas Jefferson


"Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country."
Bertrand Russell


"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire


“You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
Eugene McCarthy


“If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely IMPERIALISM.”
Fidel Castro


"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." Charles De Gaulle


"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
Bertrand Russell


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


"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished....... unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire


"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy


"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Groucho Marx


“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill


"All movements go too far."
Bertrand Russell


"Those who can make you believe absurdities......... can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire


"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
Martin Luther King Jr.


"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
Robert Frost


"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
Mark Twain


"Laws are silent in times of war."
Cicero


"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."
Homer


"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
Bertrand Russell


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.


"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain


"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"
George Carlin


"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
Benjamin Disraeli


“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a “crime” is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”
Freda Adler


"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."
George Carlin


"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein


"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost


"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
Will Rogers


"You will know them by their fruits......."
Matthew 7:16 (I felt that this quote belongs in the politics section despite its biblical context.)


“The only thing which saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”
Eugene McCarthy


"Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated."
J. Jacques,


"A child of five would understand this.........Send someone to fetch a child of five."
Groucho Marx


“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
Aesop


"I never dared to be radical when young, for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost


"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell


"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde


"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
Henry David Thoreau


"Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy."
Ambrose Bierce


“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”
Thomas Jefferson


“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had ever happened.”
Winston Churchill


“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.”
Nikita Khrushchev


"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
Bertrand Russell


"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Albert Einstein


"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx


“I think that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.”
David Icke


“And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history?”
David Icke


"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
Will Rogers


“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.”
David Icke


“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.”
Bill Hicks


"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Benjamin Disraeli


"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Friedrich Nietzsche


“Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.”
Kofi Annan


"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
Laurence J. Peter


"Study the past if you would define the future."
Confucius


"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Bertrand Russell

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich"
Napoleon


“Universal Truth is Not Measured in Mass Appeal.....”
Immortal Technique


“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
Bill Hicks


"Knowledge is the power to conquer all fears"
Juan Garcia


"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
Sir Francis Bacon


“In a world where we manifest our inner fears to our outer reality, one can either search for truth, or take their place in line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece....”
Uknown


"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
J. K. Rowling


"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
George Bernard Shaw


"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“Infinite Love is the Only Truth.......
Everything Else is Illusion!”
David Icke


"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi


"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russell


"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
John F. Kennedy


"The man who has murdered his own self becomes a predator who lives to consume what others create. The self-murdered person is the greatest threat in the world and is both violent and destructive toward himself and to everyone he encounters. He can occupy positions of little importance or of the greatest importance. He can destroy a single life, or that of a world."
Michael Tsarion


"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."
Martin Luther King Jr.


"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"What the superior man seeks is in himself is what the small man seeks is in others."
Confucius


"And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
Socrates


"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Frost


"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."
Steven Wright


"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony."
Seneca


"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
John F. Kennedy

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
Mark Twain


"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
Bertrand Russell


"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
George Carlin


"You cannot conceive the many without the one."
Plato


"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
Voltaire


"He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know."
Lao-tzu


"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
Aesop


“Whom virtue has united, death shall not separate.”
Freemasonic Axiom


"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
Ambrose Bierce


"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Bertrand Russell


"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil."
Lao-tzu,


"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost


“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is CONSCIOUS: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”
H.P. Blavatsky


"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.


"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
J. K. Rowling


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle


“To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.”
Eckhart Tolle


"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
Oscar Wilde


"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
Confucius


"Wanting to get all the gold the goose could give at once, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."
Aesop,


"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato


"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
George Bernard Shaw


"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
J. K. Rowling


“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
Deepak Chopra


"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi


"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."
Friedrich Nietzsche


“Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.”
H.P. Blavatsky


“One possible step towards true spirituality......is atheism!”
Christopher Wayne Morton


"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
J. K. Rowling


"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein


"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Albert Einstein


"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Confucius


“Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth.”
The Dhammapada


"What else is love, but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
Friedrich Nietzsche


"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."
Ambrose Bierce


"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
J. K. Rowling


"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live?"
Henry David Thoreau


"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
Bertrand Russell


“Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither.”
Christmas Humphreys


"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi


"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."
Confucius

If you know of a great quote that you feel belongs on this page, please contact me so that I can post it. I always love finding new whispers of wisdom......