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Re: Particracy's "Random Quotes"

Postby Aquinas » Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:56 am

A continuation of the current list of Random Quotes:

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?"
� Robert Redford

"We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry."
� Thomas Fuller

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
� Native American Proverb

"If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."
� Sir George Porter

"The packaging for a microwavable 'microwave' dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries."
� David Wann

"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."
� John Clapham

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." � Charles Darwin

"Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food."
� S�bastien-Roch Nicholas Chamfort

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
� P. J. O'Rourke

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
� Eli Khamarov

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
� Bill Vaughan

"Hunger makes a thief of any man."
� Pearl S. Buck

"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
� Mahatma Gandhi

"We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy."
� Martin L. Gross

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."
� Alexis de Tocqueville

"What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
� Abraham Lincoln

"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough."
� Clarie Sargent

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."
� Leonard Bernstein

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
� Clarence Darrow

"I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be."
� M.M. Coady

"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
� George Will

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
� Oscar Levant

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."
� Thomas Paine

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
� George Bernard Shaw

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
� Mahatma Gandhi

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
H. L. Mencken

"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
� Barry Goldwater

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
� Ernest Gaines

"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
� Rita Mae Brown

"If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters."
� Anita Bryant

"The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt."
� Dennis Miller

"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M-16s going, 'Who're you calling a faggot?'"
� John Stewart

"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada."
� Lorne Bloch

"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons."
� Letter to the editor, The Advocate

"What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't."
� Ed Fallon

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
� John Maynard Keynes

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
� John Maynard Keynes

"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
� John Maynard Keynes

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."
� John Maynard Keynes

"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems�the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."
� John Maynard Keynes

"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."
� John Maynard Keynes

"Racism isn't born, folks; it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list."
� Dennis Leary

"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings."
� Franklin Thomas

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
� Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race." - Bill Cosby

"I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger." - Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam

"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." - Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan

"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me." - Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow." - William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters

"A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family." - Saul Alinsky

"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression." - Jesse Jackson

"Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." - Author Unknown

"I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government." - Cissy Farenthold

"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

"We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them." - Author Unknown

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." - Ralph W. Sockman

"Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself." - From a Winston advertisement

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike." - Oscar Wilde

"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices." - Henry David Thoreau

"Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience." - Ernest Dimnet

"No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices." - Harry Bridges

"I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980

"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State." - Edward Abbey

"Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant." - Planned Parenthood advertisement

"George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus, then send your grown child to die in war." - Rick Claro

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown

"Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is." - William E. Barrett

"A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception." - George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job." - Slappy White

"An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job." - Author Unknown

"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction." - Charles R. Magel

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
- Thomas A. Edison

"Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America."
� Thomas L. Johnson

"Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery."
� Frank Chodorov

"The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn�t much matter who controls it, because it can�t do you much harm."
� Harry Browne

"The political ballot box stands for � willingness to be ruled by somebody other than yourself."
� Alvin Lowi, Jr.

"Unlike the world of free-markets, in political government when some individuals win, other individuals lose."
� Robert Klassen

"it makes no difference, in principle, if this "collective will" is divined by the edicts of a dictator or by majority vote � so long as the rights of the individual may still be sacrificed."
� Robert Garmong

"Any system that takes responsibility away from people, dehumanises them."
- Author Unknown

"Socialists like to tout their confiscation and redistribution schemes as noble and caring, but we should ask if theft is ever noble or caring."
� Robert Hawes

"If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want."
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes

"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
- Potter Stewart

"In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race"
- John Stuart Mill

"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
- Brittany Ren�e

"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual"
- Jeremy Bentham

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
- John Stuart Mill

"We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails."
- Friedrich August Hayek

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
- Aldous Huxley

"Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone"
- Kenneth Minogue

"Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. "
- Thomas Paine

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?"
- Thomas Jefferson

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. "
- P. J. O Rourke

The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard.
- MAD Magazine

"Freedom is not America's gift to the world. It is God's gift to humanity. "
- President George W. Bush (1946- )

"When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. "
-Vanya Cohen

"Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do." - Nguyen Van Thieu

"Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed." - Nancie J. Carmody

"I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it." - John Sherman

"The payment of taxes gives a right to protection." - James M. Wayne

"The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind". - Gaylord Nelson

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." - John Muir

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." - Stewart Udall

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." - Gandhi

"We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people." - Mikhail Gorbachev

"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making." - Otto von Bismarck

"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler

"I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all - you live in the heart of the beast." - Che Guevara (1964)

"Soldiers are not the enemies of the Movement. They're potential allies. They're more than that. Soldiers are the only people in America who ar epaying a stiff price for this war. Everybody else profits. Soldiers are the ones losing their lives, losing friends, having their lives disrupted. The real victims of American imperialism are its soldiers." - Fred Gardner

"No one today can afford to be innocent, or indulge himself in ignorance of contemporary governments, politics and social orders. The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear: monstrous protection rackets. The "free world" has become economically dependent on a fantastic system of stimulation of greed which cannot be fulfilled, sexual desire which cannot be satiated and hatred which has no outlet except against oneself, the persons one is supposed to love, or the revolutionary aspirations of pitiful, poverty-stricken marginal societies like Cuba or Vietnam. The conditions of the Cold War have turned all modern societies - Communist included - into vicious distorters of man's true potential." - Gary Snyder

"civil disobedience. . . is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." -
Howard Zinn

"Erotic politicians, that's what we are. We're interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos and activity that appears to have no meaning."
Jim Morrison

"Colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the interests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power structure, but an international power structure. This international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources."
Malcolm X

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
- Howard Zinn

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." -
Upton Sinclair

"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."
� George Washington

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
� Thomas Jefferson

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." - Thomas Paine

"We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world." - Tony Blair

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." - Don Reagan

"Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. "
- Ann Coulter

"Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror." -
Ann Coulter

"Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people." - Naomi Klein

�Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich� - Naomi Klein

�The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.� - Naomi Klein

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Before all else, be armed." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
--H.L. Mencken

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." -
Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"Law is mind without reason." - Aristotle

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." - Aristotle

"We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." - Aristotle

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." - Aristotle

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost." - Aristotle

"Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." - Aristotle

"They should rule who are able to rule best." - Aristotle

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"God creates men, but they choose each other." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." - Will Rogers

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir Winston Churchill

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius

"He who will not economize will have to agonize." - Confucius

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart." - Confucius

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." - Confucius

"When anger rises, think of the consequences." - Confucius

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." - Benjamin Franklin

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." - Bill Clinton

"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time." - Alfred E. Wiggam

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain

"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." - Robert Anton Wilson

"I never dared to be radical when young. For fear it would make me conservative when old."

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936

"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - Woodrow Wilson

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

"Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth."

Lester Brown, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." - Nicholas Chamfort

"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from." - Peter Drucker

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

"Only the educated are free."

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."

Lenin (1870 - 1924), "State and Revolution", 1919

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791

"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." - Bob Wells

"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature."

George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech on May 17, 2002

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

"Under every stone lurks a politician."

Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C

"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."

Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.C.

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." - Maureen Murphy

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)

"The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary." - Ralph Nader

"If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you." - Ralph Nader

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."

Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

"In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air." - Changing Times magazine

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughn

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." - Ralph Nader

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." - Confucius

"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has." - Confucius

"You cannot open a book without learning something." - Confucius

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river." - Ross Perot

"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." - George Washington

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
- Thomas Jefferson

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." - Thomas Paine

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader." - Plato

"In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy." - Brian Mulroney

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
Charles De Gaulle, "Les Mots du General

"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena." - Jon Stewart

"There is no other definition of communism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."
� Che Guevara

"The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."
� Che Guevara

"I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist."
� Nikita Khrushchev

"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."
� Leon Trotsky

"Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.' "
� Phelps Adams

"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!"
� Winston Churchill

"It all came from there."
� Lech Walesa, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell

"COMMUNISM: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty." - Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary

"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians"
� Henry Louis Mencken

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
H. L. Mencken

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
H. L. Mencken

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
H. L. Mencken

"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies."
H. L. Mencken

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
H. L. Mencken

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made"
- Otto von Bismark

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams

"I came, I saw, I conquered"
- Julius Caesar

"A theory that seems to explain everything is just as good at explaining nothing"- Christopher Hitchens

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions. But I don't always agree with them."
� George Bush

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else." - Governor Jesse Ventura

"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development." - Friedrich Engels

"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
- Friedrich August von Hayek

"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them." - Vladimir Putin

"If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows."
- Lord Louis Mountbatten

"Were it not for electricity, we would have to watch television in the dark."
� Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi

"The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" - Voltaire

"The root source of wealth is human ingenuity. This has no known bounds, so the amount of wealth in existence can always be increased. That's why capitalism is called 'making money.'"
� Marc Geddes

"There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values."
� Ronald Reagan

"Today's political campaigns function as collection agencies for broadcasters. You simply transfer money from contributors to television stations."
� Senator Bill Bradley, 2000

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
� Noam Chomsky

"The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does�if that catch-phrase has any meaning�but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is justice."
� Ayn Rand

"I do not believe that the United States should be bound by the same rules as the smallest African nation. Life isn't like that."
� Richard Perle

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
� Tenche Coxe

"The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical."
� Alvin R. Dyer (1903-1977)

"And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again."
� Bill O'Reilly on Good Morning America

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything!"
� Rick Santorum

"I think that actually AIDS is a guardian. That is I think it was sent, if you would, about forty years ago to destroy Western civilization unless we change our sexual ways, so it's really a Godsend."
� Paul Cameron

"All this concern with the effects of global warming is another manifestation of being politically correct."
� Lord Young of Graffham

"The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming."
� Professor Kirill Kondratyev
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Re: Particracy's "Random Quotes"

Postby IdioC » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:59 am

While looking for the exact wording of a different quote, I found this:

"Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions."

- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
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"Kae orzy sedrijohylakmek, megàmojylakjek, frjomimek. Kaerjoshu zri? Afrkmojad firja, Kae grzy Zykhiko ajozuo zri?"
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby Aquinas » Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:01 pm

"OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done party-to-party rather than player-to-player. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play".


Particracy allows you to establish an unelected Head of State like a monarch or a President-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The Head of State is hereditary and symbolic; the Head of Government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the Head of State" to how you want the new Head of State's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI).


The economic aspect to the game has not been deeply developed, but each nation does have a currency and some of these currencies have been assigned names. For more information and details of the suggested exchange rates, see http://classic.particracy.net/rates.php .

The LOD or Lodamun Dollar is the strongest currency and has traditionally been used as the unit of measurement for international economic comparisons.


In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass.


It usually takes up to an hour for election results to generate. During this time, the "Next Election" date is put forward a month, which is confusing. Do not worry! In a short time, the election result will generate and the "Next Election" date will then correct itself.


In your Message Centre there is a really useful feature which allows you to subscribe to all of the bill debates in your nation. If you use that, then the "Watched Discussions" section will show you every time a new message has been posted on a bill. You can also subscribe to other pages you want to follow, such as your nation message-board, Party Organisations or bills outside your nation which you are interested in.


http://fantasynamegenerators.com/#realNames and http://www.behindthename.com/random/ are great resources for coming up with character names from unfamiliar cultures.


Google Translate can help you with those language translations: https://translate.google.com/


Anyone want to do some facts about the continents and the oceans?
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby soysauce » Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:48 pm

A few suggestions

The Cake is a lie...


There's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake....


I may have been playing a little too much portal...
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby Aquinas » Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:08 am

The following have been added:

Did you know you can change the official name of your nation? All you need to do is draw up a new name that is in accordance with the National Renaming Guide, pass a bill proposing the name change with a 2/3rds majority and then post a request to Moderation on the "Nation, Region, City Renaming Requests" thread. You can change city and region names in this way too, so long as the new names "reflect the culture of the nation".


Terra, the fictional world in which Particracy is set, consists of 8 continents: Artania, Dovani, Keris, Macon, Majatra, Seleya, Squibble and Vascania.


Rildanor, Kanjor, Alduria and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) Cultures.


"OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done party-to-party rather than player-to-player. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play".


Particracy allows you to establish an unelected Head of State like a monarch or a President-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The Head of State is hereditary and symbolic; the Head of Government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the Head of State" to how you want the new Head of State's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI).


The economic aspect to the game has not been deeply developed, but each nation does have a currency and some of these currencies have been assigned names. For more information and details of the suggested exchange rates, see http://classic.particracy.net/rates.php .

The LOD or Lodamun Dollar is the strongest currency and has traditionally been used as the unit of measurement for international economic comparisons.


In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass.


It usually takes up to an hour for election results to generate. During this time, the "Next Election" date is put forward a month, which is confusing. Do not worry! In a short time, the election result will generate and the "Next Election" date will then correct itself.


In your Message Centre there is a really useful feature which allows you to subscribe to all of the bill debates in your nation. If you use that, then the "Watched Discussions" section will show you every time a new message has been posted on a bill. You can also subscribe to other pages you want to follow, such as your nation message-board, Party Organisations or bills outside your nation which you are interested in.


http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com and http://www.behindthename.com/random are great resources for coming up with character names from unfamiliar cultures.


Google Translate can help you with those language translations: https://translate.google.com/
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby Farsun » Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:31 am

Solid adds Aquinas.
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby Aquinas » Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:06 am

There has been a revision of the Random Facts to reflect the updates to the rules. See the OP for a full list of the current Random Facts.

And as ever, if you can think of a good random fact to add, or you can think of a way to improve an existing Random Fact, please use this thread to put forward your suggestions!
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby Aquinas » Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:44 am

It would be nice if we could add some more "Random Facts" about the game. Especially if we could have a few more fun/interesting ones, instead of just ones written by me, droning on about the rules :).
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby toro42 » Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:14 am

Aquinas wrote:It would be nice if we could add some more "Random Facts" about the game. Especially if we could have a few more fun/interesting ones, instead of just ones written by me, droning on about the rules :).

We could do something regarding IG names for major political ideologies (e.g. Keynesianism -> Kodomonism, Progressive Populism -> Stillmanism, Leninism -> Leonidism).
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Re: Particracy's "Random Facts"

Postby CCP » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:19 am

This one has a typo doesn't it? The second sentence should read, "they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party" right?

Aquinas wrote:"OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done party-to-party rather than player-to-player. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play".


Here's another possibility for the nation random facts (don't know if Cobura already has one):

There are two countries based on Egypt in the game. Cobura is based on modern Egypt with a retro twist, while Hawu Mumenhes is based on Ancient Egypt with a futuristic twist.


"Modernist" might be better than "futuristic," I'm not sure.
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