Quotes on Politics, Religion, & Philosophy

[Acriku]

Here we can post and archive our favorite quotes on these subjects!

I'll start it off with a good one that I liked:

Politics...

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

[SurlyPIG]

Politics:

Origin breakdown - "poli" latin for many. "tics" shortened English word ticks, meaning small, bloodsucking vermin.

Politics = Many small bloodsucking vermin.

[Gobalopper]

Here is my personal favourite:

"I spend very little time thinking about Christianity." - DukeLeto

"That is because you spend very little time thinking." - emprworm

:D

[SurlyPIG]

Ah yes, it gets quite amusing when Emprworm stretches his psychic abilities...

[exatreide]

Here is one for emp

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

--Bertrand Russell

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

--Benjamin Franklin

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (another one for emp ;D)

--Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it

--George Bernard Shaw

;D

[Anathema]

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible then dry water.

- Josef Stalin

Politicians are the same everywhere. They promise to build a bridge, even if there is no river.

- Nikita Kruschev

Politician isn't such a bad job. If you're succesful, you get much in return. And if you're not, you can always write a book about it.

- Ronald Reagan

[Caid Ivik]

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[nampigai]

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984, on air.

[Caid Ivik]

He was an actor originally, however ;)

[Anathema]

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984, on air.

Lol I heard this before, but did he really say that? ROFL

[nampigai]

I know Caid, I don't who it says the most about?

[Miles]

"Religion (emulation ofadults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements made in the search of personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question! We break that commandment daily in the harnessing of human imagination to our deepest creativity."

--- Bene Gesserit Credo