“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.”
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“We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.”
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.”
“Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.”
“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”
“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.”
“There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.”
“I don't care what you say, so don't even speak.”
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
“This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?”
“Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.”
“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
“To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.”
“How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!”
“Oh well, whatever, nevermind.”
“Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.”
“Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.”