“There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.”
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“The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.”
“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
“I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.”
“Religion is the opium of the poor.”
“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”
“Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.”
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
“Please all, and you will please none.”
“It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.”
“Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club. You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the club.”
“Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.”
“The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.”
“If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.”
“Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.”
“Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.”
“The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.”
“General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.”
“The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.”
“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”