QUOTES OF THE DAY 6-6-12

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I once saw a snake having sex with a vulture, and I thought, It’s just business as usual in Washington DC.
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― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They’re Over.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck

“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
― Mark Twain

“Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals

& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood

Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
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― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer

“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”
― Ron Paul