It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.  Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.  That's morality.  That's religion. That's art.  That's life.

 

Someone very strange, with very little promise, has taken charge of the leadership of the great empire that we have as a neighbor.

 

Demonstrate before the palaces of the rich: Demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right.

 

Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and dispair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. Let us be dissatisfied until those who live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home.

The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are full of students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We need law and order. Without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order.

 

It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes.

There is no such thing, at this date in the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

 

G.W.Bush was very depressed that people were saying he is stupid. So he calls Queen Elizabeth, who says, "Now George, what you need to do is to surround yourself with smart people. Let me show you." She calls Tony Blair and asks, "Tony, your parents had a baby. It isn't your sister and it isn't your brother. Who is it?" And Tony Blair says, "It's me!" So G.W. calls Dick Cheney and says, "Dick, your parents had a baby. It isn't your sister and it isn't your brother. Who is it?" And Cheney says, "Wow, that's a tough one. Let me get back to you." So Cheney calls Colin Powell and says, "Colin, your parents had a baby. It isn't your sister and it isn't your brother. Who is it?" And Colin Powell says, "It's me!" So Cheney calls Bush and says, "It's Colin Powell." And Bush says, "Nope. It's Tony Blair!"

 

No person shall use profanity, indecent, or obscene language in the presence of a dead human body.

 

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech, and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never hear a real American talk like that."

 

Mrs. Claypool: But Professor Wagstaff, if we tear down the dormitories, where will the students sleep?

Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff): Where they always slept. In the classroom.

 

Woody Guthrie and his friend Cisco Houston were playing at a union hall one time. And they had brought along some leaflets to pass out to the people there. As Woody was about to start playing, somebody at the back of the hall yells out, "I'll tell you what I'm going to do with this leaflet, I'll use it for toilet paper." About six guys went to grab him, but Woody says, "No, leave him be. Some people need to get this information any way they can."

The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by labor agitators, but by Christian men to whom God, in His infinite wisdom, has given the control of the property interests of the country.

Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air—however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

The telegraph is like a very long cat; you pull the tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles. Radio operates the same way, but without a cat.

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The two or three month delay between the time Plaintiff was injured and the time he received x-rays does not constitute deliberate indifference nor did Defendants' actions cause an "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain " upon Plaintiff.

We, as criminal defense lawyers, are forced to deal with some of the lowest people on earth, people who have no sense of right and wrong, people who will lie in court to get what they want, people who do not care who gets hurt in the process. It is our job "our sworn duty" as criminal defense lawyers, to protect our clients from those people.

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