Americans are

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

~Alexis de Tocqueville

I am involved

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

~Marilyn Monroe

An open society

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

~George Soros

I chose America

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

~George Soros

In America

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

~Peter Ustinov

The greatest blessing

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

~Bernard Baruch

In 1960

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

~Merle Haggard

A nation

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

~Kemal Ataturk

I have

I have the
secret, I carry
Subversive Salami in My
ragged briefcase
Garlic, Poverty
a will to Heaven

~Allen Ginsberg

Murder is unique

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."

~W.H. Auden

Political language

"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

~George Orwell

Those who make

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
Will make violent revolution inevitable.

~John F. Kennedy

Once they've got you

"Once they've got you violent,
then they know how to handle you."

- John Lennon

The world

"The world is run by insane people for insane objectives."

- John Lennon

Hitler and Mussolini

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

All ideologies

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

True terror

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

I sit on a man's back

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

~Leo Tolstoy

No diet

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

~George Bernard Shaw

You cannot

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln