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Politics: Left, Right, and Center National, state, regional, and local politics. Who's doing what to whom, and what you can do about it. How-to-get-action messages are encouraged. "How the government fucked up my life" stories are encouraged. Sharing new methods for cheating on taxes is encouraged. Sample "letters to congresscritters" are encouraged. Apathy and "I can't do anything" posts are discouraged. Left, right, centrist, or any other form of political-economic systems are all up for discussion. Be prepared to defend yourself, or at least have a good line of bullshit ready. Extensive quoting of economists and philosophers is frowned upon. We want to hear what YOU have to say, not what some constipated, impotent, dead guy dreamt up while suffering from the DT's over a hundred years ago thought.

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Old 2002-10-10, 20:25
Agent Boris_KGB Agent Boris_KGB is offline
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Default Political Quotes.

I figured this is the best place for this...If I am wrong just tell nox or trippy to move it...But I want to hear some of your favourite Leftist or any other type of quotes....My favourites are...

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" -Karl Marx

"If I were homeless I would already be home" -T-Shirt

"When we achieve worldwide success, I think we shall use gold for building public lavatories" - Lenin

" We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us." -Lenin

"Thou shalt not be Greedy"
-The Bible

"Anarchy is for the inept assortment of fresh mule froth kind of person who doesn't know that society needs a government and a leader to thrive..."
-me
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Old 2002-10-10, 22:01
Lazy Bastard Lazy Bastard is offline
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In a word, we reject all legislation, all authority, and all privileged, licensed, official, and legal influence, even though arising from universal suffrage, convinced that it can turn only to the advantage of a dominant minority of exploiters against the interests of the immense majority in subjection to them. --Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. --Mikhail Bakunin

Slavery may change its form or its name--its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity...slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs; nowadays, they are called wage earners. --Mikhail Bakunin, Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism

It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come and do not see the things which happen today. We see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forests of prejudices that beset us. --Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. --Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. --Henry David Thoreau, 1847

Individualism is, in theory, a kind of Anarchy without cooperation. It is therefore no better than a lie, because liberty is not possible without Solidarity, without cooperation. The criticism which Individualists pass on government is merely the wish to deprive it of certain functions, to hand them over virtually to the capitalists. But it cannot attack those repressive functions which form the essence of government, for without an armed force the propietary system could not be upheld. --Errico Malatesta, Anarchy

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society. --Errico Malatesta

There is no "pure" Anarchism. There is only the application of Anarchist principles to the realities of social living. The aim of Anarchism is to stimulate forces that propel society in a libertarian direction. --Sam Dolgoff, The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. --Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom. -� Malcom X
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Old 2002-10-10, 22:16
Joe Boo Joe Boo is offline
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"We Will Bury You"
Nikita Kruschev, the year the USSR began importing wheat from the West.
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Old 2002-10-10, 22:34
Nox Nox is offline
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"I smoked, but didn't inhale".

"I don't remember if I was drafted".

"I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky".

"That all depends on what the definition of the word is is".

"No controlling legal authority..."

"E Pluribus Unum? It means out of one, many".

"Those that Castro killed didn't die".


Nox
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Old 2002-10-10, 23:20
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"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain"

- Frederic Bastiat

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

- Will Durant

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

- Will Durant

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

- Aesop

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson
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Old 2002-10-11, 15:09
Global Dominator Global Dominator is offline
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The immortal words of G. Gordon Liddy while before a congressional committee investigating the "Watergate cover-up" of the early 1970's:

I could answer your questions Senator....but then I'd have to kill you.

Needless to say, it brought down the house.
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Old 2002-10-11, 17:04
piggarro99 piggarro99 is offline
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-fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity-

nixon
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Old 2002-10-11, 20:33
4ot 4ot is offline
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an idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
-Don Marquis
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Old 2002-10-12, 14:31
UnclNastyFingerz UnclNastyFingerz is offline
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Default Re: Political Quotes.

"We will use every necessary weapon of war. "

"Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen."

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."

"I�ve called the armed forces to alert and there is a reason. The hour is coming when America will act and you will make us proud."

"This is the world's fight, this is civilization's fight."

"I ask for your patience [...] in what will be a long struggle."

"The great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depend on us."

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. [...] And we know that God is not neutral."

-George W. Bush

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Old 2002-10-13, 10:24
Alan Smithee Alan Smithee is offline
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Here is one from your buddy

"kill one it is a tragedy, kill a million it is a statistic"
Joseph Stalin

or this one

"you can't make an omlet without breaking a few eggs"
vlad lennin

oh and though Its a bit of a tangent the best last words ever:

"those snipers couldn't hit an elephant at this dis-"
General john cedjwick, shot dead by a confederate snipper at the battle of spotsylvania.
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Old 2002-10-13, 17:14
Zheka Zheka is offline
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

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Old 2002-10-13, 19:41
UnclNastyFingerz UnclNastyFingerz is offline
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When was Stalin my buddy? I absolutely despise him.


"If you're alone, you don't exist."

J.P Sartre
 
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