Quotable Quotations

º "Si un país desea la paz tiene que prepararse para la guerra." (Colmar Von Der Goltz) 

º "Cuando el colonizador se refiere al colonizado acude al bestiario." (Franz Fannon) 

º "Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy-which entails disagreement, which promotes candor-has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let's by all means grieve together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. "Our country is strong," we are told again and again. I for one don't find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that's not all America has to be. "

Susan Sontag
(Shortly before she died, on the consequences of the attack against the Twin Towers)

º "My evaluation is that you are the victim of all the left-wing groups around the world and that your greatest sin was that you overthrew a government that was going communistSIn the United States, as you know, we are sympathetic to what you are trying to do. We wish your government well."

(Kissinger to Chilean General Agosto Pinochet, June 8, 1976 meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile.)


° "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you don't stop." (Confucius)

° "O cammpt teach anyone. I can only make them think." (Socrates)

° "Teachers open the door but you must enter by yourself." (Chinese proverb)

º "You can't distinguish between Al Queda and Saddam." (U.S. President George Bush)

º "A country is not only what it does--it is also what it puts up with, what it tolerates." (Kurt Tucholsky)

º "Torture used to be thought incompatible with American values." (David Lugan)

º "Baka ni tsukeru kusuri wa nai:" "There is no medicine that cures stupidity." (Old Japanese proberb)

º Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked." (Euripides)

º My birth was the first of my misfortunes." (Rousseau)

º Water, water everywhere/ and all the boards did shrink/ Water, water everywhere / nor any drop to drink." (Coleridge)

º The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind, or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." (James Joyce)

º Which letter in the word no do you not understand?" (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg)

º "If you piss on my face, I'm not gonna call it rain." (Al Sharpton)

º "Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child." (Cicero)

º "Here's the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!" (Macbeth, Act V, Scene I)

º "Those who cavalierly reject the theory of evolution, as not adequatedly supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all." (Herbert Spencer)

º "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

º "Whatever you're seeing, it's not as bad as it appears...you just need to accept that on faith."
(Thomas Foley on photos of torture at Abu Ghraib prison)

º "All right, then, we are two nations." (John Dos Pasos)

The early riser gets the worm but the late riser is wiser.  
 
God helps those who help themselves; God help those who help themselves too much.  
 
Money isn't everything, but it sure helps.  
 
"Here's the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!" (Macbeth, Act V, Scene I)  
 
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)  
 
"Those who cavalierly reject the theory of evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all." (Herbert Spencer)  
 
"Whatever you're seening, it's not as bad as it appears. You just need to accept that on faith." (Thomas Foley, George Bush's reelection chairman, on the Abu Ghraib torture in Irak)  
 
"There are lot's of things in life that are more important than money...but they are so expensive...!" (Groucho Marx)  
 
What goes up, goes down...unless you're talking about the cost of living.