In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I...

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

What is the difference between yesterday occupation & today’s freedom.

Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right...

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

A slinky is a toy made for stairs, but that’s entirely too tiresome. What about a toy for escalators that doesn’t move and does nothing and that’s the whole point? I think Americans would relate...

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.

The main cause of the ineffectiveness of British propaganda is that those directing it seem to have lost their own belief in the peculiar values of English civilization or to be completely ignorant of the...

I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system is one of your thefts from our Church; your National Convention is our...

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s the best place to hang a noose. More politicians need to be sticking their necks out for us.

I’m a handyman. I work with my hand. I masturbate for a living. That’s right, I’m in politics.

Republicans don’t stand for the beliefs of the right, and Democrats don’t stand for the principles of the left. They each stand for one thing—a public willing to remain seated like obedient children, while they...

It’s a fact I want to own a factory that makes up facts and figures, and I figure to make a fortune selling to politicians.

When I burp I’m not just pushing polluted air into the world—no, I’m espousing my belief on the true nature of politicians.

You shit sheep shapes, and I shit wolves as brown as bark. It’s all politics.

I thought the movie was too short to pay for, and too long to be free. But I’d watch it again, if I were wearing a blindfold and stuffed in the trunk of a car....

I could rant about political corruption until I’m blue in the face, but most people would just call me a Smurf and move on. My balls are also blue, but that is another subject, and...

I had a dream about you. We were both surrounded by poor people, but there was one big difference—I was poor, but you were rich. That’s why I was shocked when you tried to rob...

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And...

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

There was a car in front of me driving all conservatively, and then, lo and behold, I saw that he had a Romney bumper sticker.

My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the...

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that...

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

Failure isn’t something to be embarassed about; it’s just proof that you’re pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

valores”: relaciones libidinosas con la mercancía, con los artefactos motorizados agresivos, con la estética falsa del supermercado.

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and...

Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal...

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

peace begins where oppression ends

Hey – Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!” He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie.He held the sparkler up in front of...

Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times…as your editorials remind us A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there? Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers Dingley...

It’s much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don’t fall in line, you’ll leave them to die.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness… & … Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is...

The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes.

Why is there never a headline that says “Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved”?

Y al final resultaba que ser soldado de la patria no era precisamente defender el suelo, las fronteras, la famosa dignidad nacional, de los fueros civiles el goce defendamos el código fiel, no, ser soldado...

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.

Therefore it is not arrogance or narrow-mindedness that leads the economist to discuss these things from the standpoint of economics. No one, who is not able to form an independent opinion about the admittedly difficult...

If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children’s bedrooms, it may be because their children are the monsters. Consider what kind of world they are growing up in....

Peace is a process – a way of solving problems.

I’m happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

What is politics without a bit of controversy? The main reason we watch parliament is that we enjoy the clash of bombastic words and sometimes the physical fights. Parliamentarians are human after all. They are...