“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
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Angry Quotes — page 44 of 1190
“A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the duty and the obligation not to work 'silently', but to stand up openly against the evil and for its cure. If he does not do so then he is a faithless, miserable weakling who fails either from cowardice or from laziness and incompetence....Every last agitator who possesses the courage to defend his opinions with manly forth-rightness, standing on a tavern table among his adversaries, accomplishes more than a thousand of these lying, treacherous sneaks.”
“We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.”
“Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?”
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
“Hell is other people at breakfast.”
“You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.”
“The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
“Success is a great deodorant.”
“Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.”
“How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?”
“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.”
“Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."”
“Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.”