Michelle Templet > Quotes

“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?”
― Michel Templet

“Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!”
― Michel Templet

“My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.”
― Michel Templet

“It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.”
― Michel Templet

“The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.”
― Michel Templet

“There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.”
― Michelle Templet

“We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken the law.”
― Michel Templet

“I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.”
― Michel Templet

“We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances, is treason such a bad thing?”
― Michel Templet

“The question deserves to be asked: Is hating one's nation really such a bad thing? Or perhaps more importantly, after the crimes our government has committed, what moral self-respecting person can truly love this nation?”
― Michel Templet

“When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.”
― Michel Templet

“If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?”
― Michel Templet

“The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce.”
― Michel Templet

“On 11 September 2001, a bunch of Saudis killed almost 3000 US civilians, which led to the construction of a monument in New York City. My question is: Are we also going to build monuments in Kabul, Baghdad, and Tripoli to commemorate the thousands of civilians the US has killed since then? By the way, I should mention that neither Kabul, Baghdad, nor Tripoli is in Saudi Arabia; supposedly, the Saudis are our “friends”, and if you'll forgive the old cliché, with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
― Michel Templet

“If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.”
― Michel Templet

“With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.”
― Michel Templet

“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.”
― Michel Templet

“The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.”
― Michel Templet

“I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.”
― Michel Templet

“Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.”
― Michel Templet

“Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.”
― Michel Templet

“Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.”
― Michel Templet

“The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.”
― Michel Templet

“The most important lesson I have ever learned is that I haven't learned anything.”
― Michel Templet

“One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.”
― Michel Templet

“Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.”
― Michel Templet

“True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.”
― Michel Templet

“The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.”
― Michel Templet

“I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.”
― Michel Templet

“It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal.”
― Michel Templet