"fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

"[Blair] is the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain." - Nelson Mandela

"A camel is a horse designed by committee." - Sir Alec Issigonis

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert Frost

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain

"A number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States' war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany's." - Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy, 1983

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors." - George Orwell: 1984

"A society that is willing to trade liberty for security deserves neither" - Benjamin Franklin

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy." - Albert Einstein

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." - George Orwell

"All Bibles are man-made." - Thomas Edison

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw

"All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals." - George Orwell: 1984

"An 'acceptable level of unemployment' means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job." - Nowlan's Truism

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." - Buddha

"And no one appears to question how, in this war of precision, we've managed to land bombs in Turkey, Syria and Iran. Call me a perfectionist, but shouldn't precision entail landing in the right country? Even Hannibal didn't take his army and his elephants across the Alps and announce: "Comrades, our struggle has been hard but now we are ready to engage with Rome. Oh shit, this is Austria." - Mark Steel

"And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror." - The Book of Mozilla, 7:15 (Red Letter Edition)

"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble." - The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)

"Anyone who slaps a 'This page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." - Tim Berners-Lee

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." - Gore Vidal

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." - Christopher Dawson

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

"Bhutan Telecom should not, of course, be confused with BT plc. After all, our own BT would never be implicated in a delay in installing telecoms equipment. Perish the thought." - John Leyden, The Register

"Bush speaks in the name of the founding fathers but believes he is doing the work of the holy father. He cannot do both and condemn fundamentalism. But if he feels he must try, he might start with the sixth commandment: 'Thou shalt not kill.' - Gary Younge

"Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life." - Confucius

"Citizens seem satisfied with the ID card which is rarer than sex with an elephant." - Giuseppe Mistretta, Italian Embassy, London

"Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state." - Thomas Paine

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Albert Einstein

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected our generation as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music." - Anon

"Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media." - Ralph McGehee, former CIA analyst

"Deference to established power is not now, and never has been, the function of a free press." - Unnamed source quoted in Hansard, 18th December 1966

"Developing sites that adhere to standards, as opposed to Internet Explorer, would be a boon for smaller browser makers, but it could create enormous complications for Web developers." http://www.msnbc.com/news/729918.asp?cp1=1

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Diplomacy - the art of saying "Nice doggie" till you can find a rock." - Woody Allen

"Dissent is most necessary just when it is hardest to voice." - George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com

"Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?" - Martin Amis

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." - George Orwell: 1984

"Enforcement of anti-masturbatory legislation could prove costly and time consuming." - Frank Zappa

"Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Tse Tung

"Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental" - Karl Auerbach

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Facts are stupid things." - Ronald Reagan

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." - Mark Twain

"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you...then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Five questions we should ask any powerful person: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you use it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? - Tony Benn

"Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels." - Albert Einstein

"Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." - Donald Rumsfeld

"From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair." - William Blum

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes

"God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills." -Robert Heinlein

"God votes Republican, The only way to get things done, God loves makin' dough, Don't like payin' taxes though" - Pat McCurdy

"Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert Heinlein

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron." - George Carlin

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain." - Mark Twain

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." - Douglas Adams

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao Tzu

"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Here is a synopsis of the Hutton inquiry. 'While it is clear that government spokesmen informed all interested parties that the source for the BBC's story was Dr David Kelly, it would be entirely wrong to infer from this that the Government was responsible for placing the name of Dr Kelly into the public domain. The facts that, when asked, they said: 'It's Kelly, David Kelly, Dr David Kelly, that's spelt K-E-L-L-Y'' and that, the following morning, newspaper reports appeared to the effect that the source was Dr Kelly are entirely unconnected and belong in the realm of mere coincidence." - Mark Steel

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself." - Tony Benn

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W. C. Fields

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - Adolf Hitler

"How liberated can you be when you're dead?" - David Wimhust, UN Humanitarian Spokesman

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me." - Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964

"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these [Third World] nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the 'haves' refuse to share with the 'have-nots' by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans." - General David Sharp, former US Marine Commandant 1966

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change." - George W. Bush

"I can't decide if they know something we don't or whether they have a plan for a new world order or whether they are just idiots." - Jade Saunders, Foreign Affairs Analyst

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen

"I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven; for in Heaven are only hermits, monks, beggars and apostles, while, in Hell, I shall enjoy the company of Popes, kings, and princes." - Machiavelli

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"I don't know that you can measure public opinion just by the number of people who turn up to demonstrations." - Australian Prime Minister John Howard

"I have been sent to you as a punishment from God. Truly your sin must be grievous to deserve a punishment such as I." - Genghis Khan

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men" - Leonardo Da Vinci

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." - Kahlil Gibran

"I have seen most, if not all of the [UK govt's e-voting] pilot schemes demonstrated, and have spotted substantial flaws with some of them, including one system which violated its own security model." - Dr Ben Fairweather

"I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk." - Stephen King

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"I just don't see how Tony Blair can hold the line that he was right when everyone else is now admitting they were wrong." - Robin Cook, Former UK foreign minister

"I know this is kinda hard for contemporary people to get their heads around, but Jesus Christ used to beat people up with a whip for being capitalists. He chased the moneylenders out of the sacred precincts. They were extremely alarmed by this. They were screaming stuff, like "Hey wow! The Prince of Peace is beating the living crap out of us!" - Bruce Sterling

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Fred Allen

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

"I may have invented [ctrl+alt+del], but Bill [Gates] made it famous." - David Bradley

"I never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him." - Galileo Galilei

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." - J. Edgar Hoover

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)

"I see them changing the matrix of the Internet to a model that's based on surveillance and control. That is in the long term advantage of those who want to control and surveil." John Perry Barlow, EPIC

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." - Dan Quayle

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." - Stephen Hawking

"I think everybody always focused on the weapons of mass destruction. Regime change has been a policy of the United States for more than one administration." - Tom Schieffer, US Ambassador to Australia, aclose friend and business asssociate of GW Bush, 19/03/2003

"I want to know the facts." George W Bush gets born yet again.

"I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will." - GW Bush Speaking about Saddam Hussein, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 5, 2002

"I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are." - President George Bush, 1988

"I'm ashamed of our government. That the party we elected in 1997 with such high hopes has come to this, openly telling such lies, is sickening. I've never said this before but I wish I was French." - Alexei Sayle

"Identity is Provisional." - The Fakester Manifesto

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"If it's a hobby to us and a job to you, why are you doing such a shoddy job?" - Linus Torvalds to Microsoft

"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein

"If that's showing a duty of care I'm glad I don't work there."- Greg Dyke on MoD treatment of Dr Kelly

"If the Vice President's position should prevail, it will change the very nature of our government's system of checks and balances. If GAO is held to be as restricted as Cheney would have it, such a ruling will create a black hole in the Federal firmament - a no man's land where only the President and Vice President can go, unobserved by their Constitutional co-equals on Capitol Hill" - John Dean

"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." - Muhammad Ali

"If they to break off now will not nevertheless break the speed-rare files off geloscht.?" - Babelfish at it's best

"If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need." - U.S. Brig. General William Looney, Washington Post, 30th August 1999

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein

"If we let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now." - Richard Perle

"If we suffer tamely an attack on our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." - Samuel Adams

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Anon

"If you don't think that logic is a good method for determining what to believe, make an attempt to convince me of that without using logic. No one has even bothered to try yet." - Brett Lemoine

"If you pick up a dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog." - Mark Twain

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

"Ignorance is Strength." - George Orwell: 1984

"In 1988, Saddam's forces attacked Kurdish civilians with poisonous gas from Iraqi helicopters and planes. U.S. intelligence sources told The LA Times in 1991, they .believe that the American-built helicopters were among those dropping the deadly bombs. - Jeremy Scahill, The Saddam in Rumsfeld's Closet

"In christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!." - Orson Welles

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." - President Dwight Eisenhower, January 1961.

"In the end, I think we are just tired of being lied to." - Robert Fisk

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." - Mark Twain

"Intelligents agents are the technology of the future, and always will be." - Mike Langberg

"Ironically, Reagan's official rationale for his Grenada assault was that Cuban commies were on the island. This is ironic because the Cubans are still there. Reagan brought war to the island, then left, the Cubans came back and, far from being a menace, have helped the impoverished Grenadians with such basic needs as building a new hospital. If any members of Ollies tourist brigade get sick, they could be treated there for free. Now there's a lesson in international relations: Make health, not war." - Jim Hightower

"Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?" - Woodrow Wilson

"It had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally." - George Orwell: 1984

"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies." - Woody Allen

"It is not entirely clear to me what the legal basis might be for the exercise of a system like Carnivore." - Vintcent Cerf

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"It is thought there are about four million Americans who believe they have been abducted by extraterrestrials." - Professor Richard McNally, Harvard University

"It seems that the so-called war on terrorism is being used largely as a bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical objectives." - Michael Meacher, Former UK Govt Minister

"It would be easy for us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the rights, privileges and duties of all other countries and peoples, to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Fascism did." - Ernest Hemingway

"It'll take time to restore chaos." - George W Bush

"It's clear to virtually everyone apart from our vain, deluded, pontificating prime minister that the issue of weapons of mass destruction is merely a pretext for the United States to project its power around the world." - Alexei Sayle

"It's getting embarrassing to watch our government still trying to deny reality." - Robin Cook

"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." - Muhammad Ali

"Justice delayed is justice denied." - William Gladstone

"Justice is incidental to law and order." - J. Edgar Hoover

"Let's face it, the world would be a boring place without oppressive governments. If we were free to do or say whatever we wanted, it wouldn't be exciting to do or say anything." - James Maverick Cook

"Life's not fair, but the root password helps." - BOFH

"Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services." - Mark Harris, Electronics Times

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one who can be mass produced with unskilled labor." - Werner von Braun

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on." - Winston Churchill

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself." - J. B. Priestley

"Mary had a little key / she kept it in escrow / and everything that Mary sent / the feds were sure to know." - Andy Starritt

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley

"Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience." - Blaise Pascal

"Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations." - Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine

"Mommy, I learned in DC that patriotism is a flag on every building and a camera on every corner, Tommy" - http://www.observingsurveillance.org

"The nature of the opposition can be better understood from the individual stories. For example, a group of nuns in Hackney have formed an anti-war group, and have taken boxes of badges and leaflets, which should surely form the plot for a remake of The Sound of Music." - Mark Steel

"Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." - Michael Rivero

"My name is Shazia Mirza, or at least that is what is says on my pilot's licence." - Comedienne Shazia Mirza

"My personal view is that complexity in a leader is not a helpful thing, and certainly not a helpful thing in a crisis." - Roy Blunt on GW Shrub

"My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt." - George Bernard Shaw

"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race." - Albert Einstein

"Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"No one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American people." - PT Barnum

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Ron Nesen

"Not since Richard Nixon stiffed the Congress during Watergate has a White House so openly, and arrogantly, defied Congress's investigative authority." - John Dean

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet" - Albert Einstein

"Oh my God, this War On Terrorism is gonna rule! I can't wait until the war is over and there's no more terrorism," "I know! Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore," - Get Your War On

"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!" - H.R. Haldeman

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin

"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what.s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous." - Aldous Huxley

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person." - Albert Einstein

"Only the Thought Police mattered." - George Orwell: 1984

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"Our job is to give people not what they want but what we decide they ought to have." - Richard Salant, former President of CBS News

"Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity [U.S. military-economic supremacy]... To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming... We should cease to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." - George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department, 1948

"Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them." - Thomas Jefferson

"Outside of society." Patti Smith

"Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore." - Anatole Broyard

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Albert Einstein

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

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"People who illegally download copyrighted music should have their computers remotely destroyed." - Senator Orrin Hatch

"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." - Nikita Khrushchev

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." - George Orwell: 1984

"Public discussion is a political duty. The great menace to freedom is an inert people." - Judge Brandeis

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" - Juvenal

"Rattled by the outpouring of anti-war sentiment, the U.S. and Britain began reworking a draft resolution yesterday to authorise force against Saddam. Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the final product may be a softer text that doesn't explicitly call for war." - Saddam to get grounded for a week with no bedtime cocoa.

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon

"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." - Kahlil Gibran

"Several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz." - Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy, 1983

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." - Bertrand Russell

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine

"Some mornings it just isn't worth chewing through the leather straps." - Emo Phillips

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." - Albert Einstein

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Sir Fred Hoyle

"Spam is no good. Don't do it. It causes bad karma and cancer (and perhaps some other diseases). Yes, this is true. No, it's not a joke. Oh, and spammers rot in hell." - Spam Policy at MyRealBox.com

"Spare no expense to save money on this one." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Stay cool and don't believe anything the Bush administration tells you. In fact, play it safe: don't believe anything anybody tells you." - George Carlin

"Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not." - Frank Zappa

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

"Taunt not the sysadmin, for he can become you and make your life interesting." - Anon

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley

"Technology is the answer but what is the question?" - Red Martian/Technology Gone Bad

"Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Say a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it." - Anon

"Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it." - George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it." - William Gibson

"The American military has become like one of these couples that always goes on holiday to the same resort. They're sat in the Pentagon muttering: "We always bomb the same place, every year. This year we looked through the brochures and thought of bombing somewhere new, like Yemen or North Korea, but in the end we thought we'd play safe and stick with Iraq as usual." - Mark Steel

"The bigger the lie, the more people will believe in it." - Adolf Hitler

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - William Colby. Former head of the CIA

"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." - Ferdinand Magellan

"The cruellest trick was the Taliban's, who allowed plenty of drugs and then banned music." - Mark Steel

"The Cubans must be slightly irritated at appearing on a list of terrorist states, given that the country that produced the list has formulated more than 300 plots to assassinate their president." - Mark Steel

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat." - Albert Einstein

"The English are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world." - George Orwell

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." - Diogenes

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." - George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli, 1796

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." - Stanley Kubrick

"The great weakness of liberal Americans, and liberals everywhere, is that they think if you just point out our leaders' lies that will do. But it doesn't work like that." - US playwright Adriano Shaplin

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy." - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, who by peddling second hand, second rate technology, led them all into it in the first place." - Douglas Adams

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism." - Brad Shapcott

"The journey is the reward." - Taoist Saying

"The last message from the radio station in Hungary in 1956 as the Soviet tanks rolled in was "Don't forget us". We need good democrats to make democracy work, and it is the responsibility of both the politicians and the media to make sure that they are in good supply in our society." - Lord McNally 1996

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev." - Nikita Khrushchev

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." - Albert Einstein

"The more laws, the less justice." - Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly, it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." - Joseph Goebbels. Anyone for Weapons Of Mass Destruction?

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell

"The only justification for war is the danger of a pre-emptive strike. I do not see that at all. This is about unfinished business." - Professor Sir Bernard Crick

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein

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

"The other argument for war, that Saddam's evil is proved by his war against Iran and his treatment of Kurds, is poetic in its hypocrisy. It's true he did both those things but we were backing him at the time. The Americans shot down a civilian Iranian plane, vetoed a United Nations resolution condemning the attacks on the Kurds and dismissed anyone who pointed out this barbarism." - Mark Steel

"The people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." - Hermann Goering

"The policy of the US is regime change, with or without inspectors." - Ari Fleischer

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." - Tim Berners-Lee

"The press is not characterised by the good it does, but by the evil it prevents." - Alexis de Tocqueville

"The promise of this "road-map" to a Palestinian state is repeated without asking why, 12 years after identical promises at the last Gulf War, it seems to have re-emerged right now. I remember this technique from when I was 17. I'd agree to tidy up, then make no effort until I wanted to borrow the car, and renew the promise. Every Gulf War the Americans say to the Arabs: "We're just getting round to it. Now just support our invasion and we'll do it in the morning." - Mark Steel

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." - Oscar Wilde

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde

"The purpose of war is not to die for your own country, but to make some other poor bastard die for his." -General George M. Patton

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man." - Albert Einstein

"The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters." - Fidel Castro

"The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people." - Ashanti saying

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein

"The sun does not move." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The tabloid also mentions nuclear weapons. For, 'if Saddam acquires enriched uranium, he could be just months from building a warhead'. If the Women's Institute acquired enriched uranium, they could be just months from building a warhead." - Mark Steel

"The tycoons were linked by an ideology: the ideology of Business as Usual. Bound by identical reactionary ideas, the members sought a common future in fascist domination regardless of which world leader might further that ambition." - Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy, 1983

"The UK Government is attempting to systematically extinguish the right to privacy. Their plans should be resisted by everyone who cares about freedom." - Simon Davies, Privacy International

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The United States is putting together a Constitution now for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It's served us well for 200 years, and we don't appear to be using it anymore, so what the hell?" - Jay Leno

"The United States spends more on arms annually, $275 billion presently, than the rest of the Security Council combined. U.S. arms expenditures are approximately 25 times the gross national product of Iraq. The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe." - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General, Letter to the U.N., November 1998

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolf Hitler

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P. Huntington

"The White House has always attracted the mentally ill." - Secret Serviceman Vincent Charles

"The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. ... From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it." - Henry Adams

"The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF/World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights." - Edward S. Herman, economist

"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - General Omar Bradley

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes Benz 380 SL convertible." - P. J. O'Rourke

"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry." - George Armstrong Custer

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa

"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush

"There will be a long-term legacy of hatred for the West if the Iraqi people continue to suffer from the effects of the war we started." - Robin Cook

"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS." - BOFH School

"There's no way to delay that trouble coming every day." - Frank Zappa

"They said they weren't on drugs, but we think that was a lie. We think that's how he could communicate with God. That and listen to the Steve Miller Band." - Derrick Thompson http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=386872

"They stole our revolution. Now we're stealing it back." - http://www.ntk.net

"They were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate" - In 1949 George Orwell predicts office life and Fox/CNN.

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." - Albert Einstein

"This is the wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong ally, against the wrong enemy." - Alan Bleasdale

"This war is solely about oil. George Bush has never given a damn about human rights," Mayor Of London

"Those predictions have not turned out to be correct," he said. "I think if the facts change you should be big enough to change your mind." - Tony Blair, sadly not talking about WMD."You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." - President Bush at Townsend Elementary School, February 21 2001

"Those who are planning [the invasion of Iraq] have recognised that their future dominance can be sustained by means of a simple economic formula: blood is a renewable resource; oil is not." - George Monbiot

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." - Sir Winston Churchill

"To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject." - Albert Einstein

"To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." - Michael Parenti

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire, and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." - Tacitus

"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." - Anon

"Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'." - John Sladek

"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde

"Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr. here's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth." - British Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr.

"Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might" - Blaise Pascal

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - JK Galbraith

"Unlike most people who read "1984" and categorize it as a nightmare scenario, the FBI reads it and considers it wishful thinking." - Joel Mowbray

"Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina." - William Shirer, 1973

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." - Dan Quayle

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" - George Orwell: 1984

"War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair." - George Orwell: 1984

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." - Dan Quayle

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - Buddha

"We have a suspicious amount of 98-year-old Albanian millionaire grandmothers with Hotmail addresses who own 200-plus computers and head up a tech firm who are interested in reading our newspaper." - A privacy officer discusses a drawback to collecting personal information online.

"We must doubt the certainty of everything that passes through the senses, but how much more we ought to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul." - Leonardo da Vinci

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mendela

"We still have a choice today; non-violent co-existence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight." - Martin Luther King

"We're going to become guilty, in my judgement, of being the greatest threat to the peace of the world. It's an ugly reality, and we Americans don.t like to face up to it. I hate to think of the chapter of American history that.s going to be written in the future ." - Senator Wayne Morse, 1967

"We're not against ideas. We're against people spreading them." - General Augusto Pinochet

"We've put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives. We've asked for nothing but enough land to bury them in." - Colin Powell being unclear about whose people and land he is referring to.

"What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be." - Antonio Gramsci

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" - W. C. Fields

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'" - Alfred Hitchcock

"When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned." - Richard Milhous Nixon

"When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Richard Buckminster Fuller

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." - Abraham Maslow

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain

"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends." - Orson Welles

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it." - Carl Sagan

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"Where do you want to go today?" - Question asked by the digital cabbie who owns the taxi that you're only renting.

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell: 1984

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods." - Albert Einstein

"With Epcot Center, the Disney Corporation has accomplished something I didn¨t think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." - P. J. O'Rourke

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." - General William Westmoreland

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." - Oscar Wilde

"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets." - Anthony Burgess

"You are writing this Constitution as if only good men will take office. When evil men take office, the whole gang will be in collusion. They will keep the people in utter ignorance and steal their liberty by ambuscade." - Patrick Henry

"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long." - Boris Yelstin

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." - Medgar Evers

"You can really hear the six-year-old inside Tony Blair. He knows he has done wrong, but he is jumping up and down, shouting, 'No mummy, I didn't do it, I didn't!" - Lucy Porter

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." - Albert Einstein

"You don't need a totalitarian dictatorship like Hitler's to get by with murder ... you can do it in a democracy as long as the Congress and the people Congress is supposed to represent don't give a damn?" - William Shirer

"You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction; I can get all that at home." - Peter Cook

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach them your art of war." - Napoleon

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - Aldous Huxley

"You think it's a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that's what people want. It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought." - Steve Jobs

"You won't find that ringtone so bloody amusing when I shove the phone up your backside." - Andrew Thomas

"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

"YOUR PC's broken and I'VE got a problem?" - The BOFH slogan


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