[H] Hegemonic Discourse & Global Meme Dominance

"What's another word for Thesaurus?" ~Steven Wright

"Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?" ~George Wallace

Eric, Just what this country needs. More hate-filled rhetoric from the extreme wrong wing. ~ElliottBay, July 1, 2006

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has." ~Will Rogers

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates." ~Jay Leno

"Woah, slow down there maestro. There's a *New* Mexico?" ~Mr. Burns

"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." ~Thomas Jefferson

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." ~Norman Mailer

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." ~Jerry Seinfeld

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it." ~Glaser and Way

"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law." (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) ~Cicero

"Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice." ~Arcesilaus

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." ~James Branch Cabell

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." ~Colin Powell

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week." ~Will Rogers

"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." ~Will Rogers

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." ~Mao Tse-Tung

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." ~George Orwell

"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." ~Homer

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." ~Peter Drucker

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." ~Casey Stengel

"What luck for rulers that men do not think." ~Adolf Hitler

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." ~Virginia Woolf

"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." ~Senator Patrick Leahy

"Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to." ~Mark Twain

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." ~Fred Thompson

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." ~Mae West

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." ~Ayn Rand

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." ~William Hazlitt

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." ~Lord Acton

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." ~Alan Dean Foster

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos." ~Will Durant

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." ~Frank Zappa

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses." ~Victor Hugo

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." ~Mark Twain

"Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too." ~Lichty and Wagner

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe." ~Laurence J. Peter

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." ~Milton Friedman

"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." ~Laurence J. Peter

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." ~H.L. Mencken

"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." ~Art Spander

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes." ~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." ~H.L. Mencken

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." ~Douglas Adams

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." ~Douglas Adams

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." ~Douglas Adams

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." ~John F. Kerry

Enter the blogosphere, a wondrous world where teeming hordes of pajama clad opinionators spill their beans all over your monitor.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat." ~Will Rogers

"When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place." ~Pearl S. Buck

"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld." ~Dorothy Thompson

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." ~Edward Abbey

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." ~Edmund Burke

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." ~Albert Einstein

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." ~Aristotle

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost." ~Aristotle

"We make war that we may live in peace." ~Aristotle

"All men by nature desire knowledge." ~Aristotle

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." ~Aristotle

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." ~Aristotle

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." ~Howard Aiken

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~Arthur Schopenhauer

"Computer /nm./: a device designed to speed and automate errors." ~From the Jargon File

"DIE, n. The singular of 'dice.' We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, 'Never say die.' At long intervals, however, some one says: 'The die is cast,' which is not true, for it is cut." ~The Devil's Dictionary

"Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters." ~African Proverb

"DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears." ~the Devil's Dictionary

"If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event... what kind of film would you use?" ~Unattributed

"[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth." ~Stalin

"A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" ~Ronald Reagan

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." ~Ronald Reagan

"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." ~Nikita Khrushchev

"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" ~Paul Harvey

"In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road." ~Gorbachev, at the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution (1987)

"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." ~Bertrand de Jouvenel

"We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice." ~Woody Allen

"I think it would be an excellent idea." ~Mahatma Gandhi, When asked what he thought of Western civilization.

"I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class." ~Frederick Douglass

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life, is endangering our open and democratic society." ~George Soros

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." ~Ayn Rand

"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole." ~Carroll Quigley

"It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for." ~Ayn Rand

"The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults." ~Robert Nozick

"Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State." ~Benito Mussolini

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business." ~Clarence S. Darrow

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery." ~Sir Winston Churchill

"Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence." ~Anonymous

"Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history." ~A. J. P. Taylor,

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others." ~Frederic Bastiat

"Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American." ~George Herbert Walker Bush

"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow." ~Elias Boudinot

"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." ~Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace." ~Samuel Adams

Hefty Hegemonic Quotations

home > quotes

"It's amazing what you can do. A prominent Republican does something wrong and you find a way to poke fun at liberals." ~Paul Siegal

Last 10 Entries

Last 10 links

8 random topics

8 random link topics

Blog Roll

Important Stuff

Links

Reference