Emily Kian > Emily's Quotes

“They misunderestimated me.”
― George W. Bush

“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”
― George W. Bush

“How embarrassing to be human.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.”
― Bill Maher

“If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream.”
― Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”
― Jon Stewart

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
― Malcom X

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“I am a machine condemned to devour books.”
― Karl Marx

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.”
― Bill Nye

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
― Mark Twain

“Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.”
― Pete Seeger

“A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.”
― Pete Seeger

“We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”
― Jon Steward

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”
― Harry S. Truman

“Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole lot of people. Of course, socialism is just “evil” now. It’s completely discredited, supposedly, by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I can’t help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to communist China now, which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. You talk about the collapse of communism or the Soviet Union. My goodness, this country collapsed in 1929. I mean it crashed, big time, and capitalism looked like a very poor idea.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“Science is magic that works.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut