Friday, June 09, 2006

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! Quotes #2

"Movies may affect people's lives, but they don't have the long-lasting effect of a home-visit program." - Rob Reiner

"The religious right has clearly adopted the tactics of professional victimhood, to the point of now essentially casing themselves in the role of perpetual martyrs. A group that controls every branch of government and most cultural institutions has somehow managed to convince themselves, or at least their more credulous followers, that they are a poor abused minority. It's staggering to contemplate." -Ed Brayton, Dispatches from the Culture Wars

"Freedom is the other justification for the war in Iraq. The word 'freedom' appears 8 times in Bush"s speech, yet it is unclear what he meant by the word." - John Hickman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Berry College

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."- George Bernard Shaw (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

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