Republicans and Democrats are as polarized as Shiites and Sunnis. Politicians of both parties sound like rival mobs of chimpanzees run amuck in their habitat, throwing poo on each other and romping gleefully away going "Neener, neener." And--unless you live in a hidey-hole under the stairs, waiting for the Rapture--you may have noticed that neither party seems to be solving some of the great crises of our time. -Jill Kuraitis

We have passed from anger about what's going on in our political system to cynicism and alienation.
-David L. Boren (President of the University of Oklahoma)

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -Arman de Caillavet, 1913

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J.O'Rourke

We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin (before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 1776)

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which politicial institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality. -de Tocqueville

(Man) tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell. -Sartre

Change within yourself what you want to see changed in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi

I am not what I do, I do what I am. -Miles Davis

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. -Albert Einstein

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. -Friedrich Nietzshe

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -Albert Schweitzer

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney. -Alfred E Smith

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. -Goethe

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -Dave Barry

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-G. M. Trevelyan

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
-Dr. Martin Henry Fisher

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who have not sufficient capital to form a corporation. -Howard Scott

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. -Edward Abbey

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
-Paula Poundstone

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. -Anwar al-Sadat

An honest politician is one who when he's bought, stays bought.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying. -Malcolm Lowry

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

...the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. -Thomas Szasz

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -Anais Nin

World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
-Marshall McLuhan, 1968

He who owns little is little owned. -Henry David Thoreau