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#1

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

tags: humor, politics, voting

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#2

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

31596 likes

#7

“في الآخرة المنافقون فى الدرك الأسفل من النار ،، لكنهم فى الدنيا في الصفحات الأولى من بعض الصحف”
― جلال عامر, إستقالة رئيس عربي

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#8

“الحروب مثل الثورات يخطط لها الدهاة وينفذها الشجعان ويتسلم جائزتها اللامؤاخذة”
― جلال عامر, إستقالة رئيس عربي

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#10

“ليس من حقك أن تتطلع إلى منصب مهم فى بلدك، فهو مثل مقاعد الأتوبيس مخصصة لكبار السن”
― جلال عامر, إستقالة رئيس عربي

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#12

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: advice, americanism, english-as-a-second-language, immigration, politics, usa, wisdom

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#15

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

1015 likes

#16

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

tags: politics

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#16

“The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: adolf-hitler, electoral-politics, george-w-bush, humor, politics

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#16

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
― Aristotle

tags: peace, peacemaking, politics, war

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#17

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: constitution, education, government, liberty, politics

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#18

“الاستنارة تكون بتجديد الفكر الدينى وفتح باب الاجتهاد وليس بقطع أوراق الكتب فنحن الشعب الوحيد الذى يؤدب الكتب ويهذبها ويصلحها وكأنها فى سجن.. فشلنا فى «تعبيد» الطرق فبدأنا فى «تعبيد» الناس وإجبارهم على الصيام وفشلنا فى «تنقية» المياه فبدأنا فى تنقية التراث”
― جلال عامر, إستقالة رئيس عربي

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#19

“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.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

4310 likes

#19

“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.”
― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force

tags: arabs, british, civilization, creeds, death, ecstasy, emotional, fear, fear-of-death, fighting, force, fury, generous, hope, indian, influence, intolerance, islam, joy, mad-dogs, madness, militant, mohammedan, muslim, peace, plunder, progress, prosperity, religious-bloodthirstiness, religious-violence, soudan, turks, weapons

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#19

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#19

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43887 likes

#19

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#19

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62176 likes

#20

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics

785 likes

#21

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

58025 likes

#22

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

1904 likes

#23

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: human-rights, inspirational, politics

1112 likes

#24

“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”
― George Carlin

tags: politics

737 likes

#25

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45296 likes

#26

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

13157 likes

#27

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

31374 likes

#28

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#29

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69679 likes

#30

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

40996 likes

#31

“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
― George Carlin

tags: organized-religion, politics, religion

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