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Some of the coolest things anybody ever said about the system under which we live

People took politics seriously in those days. They used to start storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election. ...............George Orwell

Big Brother is like the Uncertainty Principle - you can't tell where he is and how fast he's moving at the same moment. ...................Dr. Agon

To call our government a cesspool of waste is to do a disservice to all the plucky amoebae out there who thrive on human excrement. ............................. Dennis Miller

Conspiracy Theory, Unofficial Definition: Anything which, were it true, we couldn't handle. .......Steve Bhaerman

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
..........................George W. Bush

As estimated by the Bureau of National Affairs, the dollar cost of corporate crime in America is over ten times greater than the combined larcenies, thefts, robberies and burglaries committed by individuals. .............Gerry Spence

Technocratic planners, totalizing social theorists, enthusiastic architects of new and better bureaucracies - all mimic the medieval barber whose response to a patient's deteriorating condition is always to open another vein. ........Paul F. Campos

A lot of people who say they want a smaller government really do - it's just that they want to be it. ........Dale Hartman

The one must be sacrificed for the good of the many, until the many are all sacrificed, one by one. .......................................Ward Moore and Avram Davidson

The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ...............................................................Albert Einstein

The War on Terror was never a war in the traditional sense. It is, instead, a kind of brand, an idea that can be easily franchised by any government in the market for an all-purpose opposition cleanser. .........................Naomi Klein

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. .......................Martin Luther King

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ..............................Douglas Casey

Our undoing is in our collective willingness to trust those we shouldn't, those who invariably use our best instincts against us. ....................................James Lee Burke

I think Nixon did this country a great favor when he re-instilled in the American people a mistrust of government. .........................Carol Fondiller

That's how the government is. It was invented to do stuff that private enterprise doesn't bother with, which means that there is probably no reason for it. .........Neal Stephenson

When the government tells me not to do something I feel that it's my patriotic duty to immediately go out and do it. ..............................................Rico Vaselino

The only way the Bill of Rights will protect you from much of anything nowadays is if you hold it over your head when it rains. ...........................................................Samantha Crouse

From Nixon on, every paranoid suspicion about the dirty tricks of government had proved an underestimate. ... Samuel Shem

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. .......................................Lysander Spooner

Since governments are so good, why not have a thousand to choose from? Why not have two hundred million?. .............................Allen Thornton

It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth, a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest, where the rulers have minds like little children and the lawgivers believe in Santa Claus. .......................... F. Scott Fitzgerald

We can probably do more for peace and freedom in the world right here, on our own turf, than by exporting ideology to the rest of the world which has perhaps had its fill of our imperial outreach offerings. ....................Bob Black

This is a country with 250 million people who don't want any news from Washington and, even if they did, wouldn't expect any news from Washington because they don't think Washington could pour stale beer out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel. ...............Russell Baker

The idea of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. ......................Thomas Jefferson

There are these 12 guys running the country, and they all went to the right schools and they're all trained for their jobs and they all have drawers full of classified information and they all have direct lines to the White House. So they resent it terribly when outsiders, like the American people, try to butt into their foreign policy. ..................Jules Feiffer

A large percentage of your pay is taken by the government for defenses that don't defend, welfare that doesn't aid, and the upkeep of a government that is impermeable to the influence of a single individual. ..........Michael Ventura

None but the most conscionable human beings ever question the true nature of the institutions that are theoretically protecting them. ................Tom Robbins

Criminals present no threat to the state. Just the opposite: If all the criminals were to reform tomorrow, many people might ask why we needed the state at all. ................................................Allen Thornton

It is true, of course, that war not only arouses suppressed forces slumbering in us, but also really does liberate some people, be it from a hated environment, the slavery of daily work, or the burden of one's own personality. That is one of the mysteries that will perpetuate wars forever. .........................George Grosz

The notion of making the government behave as if it were really around to help people is radical in itself and will cause tremors in the community that you cannot tell where it will lead. ..............................................................Karl Hess

To believe in conspiracies, one must assume that the government is organized. That is a leap of faith I am unwilling to make. ...........................................PM Kellermann

A reminder from history: the American. Revolution was not financed with matching grants from the Crown. ............................ David Bayles and Ted Orland

Legislative interference with the habits of the people produces the sneak, the spy, the fanatic, and the artful dodger. ................Aleister Crowley

I don't believe democracy should have a totally professional military force. I believe the military should be in large number made up of people who don't want to be there and will help make the generals honest. ......................Willie Nelson

Government is the only agency that can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless. ................Ludwig von Mises

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. ..................Bertrand Russell

The simple truth of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. .............................Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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