Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the...

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer – if the information they base that...

The thing they’re trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That’s the substance.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone.” A statement so far to the right that it...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

The multitude,” Cavendish says, “is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down–for the novelty of the thing.

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no...

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

To Trazada’s surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. ‘Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are ignorant. They are afraid. They are stupid and superstitious. Why, most...

evil” is inbounds….good liberals will not stand up and criticize the bad ones….Stop attacking individual conservatives unless evidence of crossing the line exists. When conservatives cross the line, other conservatives stand up.

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.

I’m famous for my Shepherd’s Pie. Here’s my recipe: lamb, potatoes, cheese, peas, paprika, and a wool-covered apron for the chef/shepherd/wolf-like politician to wear while serving the sheeple up.

Just because I look like John Wayne (at least my liver looks identical to his) doesn’t mean I play cowboy with politics. I’m going to vote for Philo T. Farnsworth for president, and so should...

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

You don’t stockpile guns because ‘you never know’. You stockpile guns because you do know. And while you may be wrong, your shitload of guns says you no longer welcome debate on the subject.

America’s been ruined by one word: Bankers. No, two words: Bankers and lawyers. Make that three words. Add politicians to that list. Oh, and don’t forget the lobbyists.

Boy, when Grandma Wrinklebottom comes to town, you’d better hide your underwear. I know I’ll be hiding my political perspectives.

Arlington National cemetery is huge! But that’s not surprising, because DC is the world’s largest graveyard of good ideas and intentions. Politicians are natural hunters. If there is a good and productive thing, they will...

She’s beautiful, but she’s also got brains. I’ll bet zombies would love to eat out of her skull like a bowl of Jell-O that had an IQ of 180—which is absurd, because the last bowl...

Would you mind terribly if instead of serving desert, I masturbated quietly at the dinner table? I’m training for Congress.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

The president of the US is the leader of the free world, if by free world you mean the country with the largest prison system.

Not even death can keep me from the woman I love. And why should it? My death won’t keep me from voting for President every four years.

I once saw a cockroach try to step on a politician, because it thought it was vile and disgusting.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law–the supreme law–was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not...

a filmmaker we almost lost to politics … my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages,...

my dance card is going to be full.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn’t exist.

There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us by our own habits and memories; recognition of the ways in...

Las ideologías son prisiones mentales que producen ceguera.

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes…

There are two things that turn a boy into a man; the size of his dick and the level of his patience.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that’s left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they’re all paying three bucks a gallon for gas,...

Wisdom of the Ages: “Uppity” How Obama’s new aggressive style is described below the Mason-Dixon line.

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

I think we need to rise above partisan politics on this one,