Here is More from THE AWAY TEAM's WALL OF QUOTES:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

"If you can piss in it it's craft, if you can piss on it, it's art" Thor Froslov.

 

"When bankers get together for dinner they discuss art, when artists get together for dinner they discuss money." Oscar wilde.

 

 

"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users" Edward Tufte

 

"A purely free market is like a free fox in a free henhouse." Louis Schweitzer (Chairman of Renault)

 

"If all economists were laid end to end, it would be a good thing." John Kenneth Galbraith.

 

"They will do whatever they let them get away with." Joseph Heller

 

"Multinational corporations influence the lives and welfare of billions of people yet their accountability is limited to their shareholders and their influence on national and international policy making kept behind the scenes." Human Development Report, United Nations Development Program, 1999

 

"Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot" anon.

 

"Interest is the invention of Satan" Thomas Edison

 

"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. " Joseph Heller, Catch 22.

 

"Definition of Faith: not wanting to know what is true." Nietzsche

 

"Religion is a magic device for turning unanswerable questions into unquestionable answers" Art Gecko.

 

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." Emerson.

 

On consumerism: "Keep your eyes open, and guard against every sort of covetousness, because even when a person has an abundance, his life does not result from the things he possesses." Jesus. Luke 12:15

 

 

 

"The illegal we can do immediately, the Unconstitutional takes a bit longer," Henry Kissinger.

 

"I hate quotations." Emerson.

 

"Rule a Kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish -- don't overdo it." LaoTsu

 

"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway." Othal Brand, member of a Texas Pesticide Review board on chlordane.

 

"Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it." Einstein.

 

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

 

 

"The less you know, the more you believe." Bono and others.....

 

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert." anon.

"Republicrat --The evil of two lessers." anon.

 

"Too bad that youth is wasted on the young," Mark Twain.

"Nothing focuses the mind as sharply as the news that one will be executed in a few days," Dr. Samuel Johnson.

 

"Your argument is as thin as soup made from the shadow of a pigeon which has starved to death" Abraham Lincoln.

"Let him continue. He's using 17 of my patents." Tesla said of Marconi.

"If English was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for us" Miriam Ferguson, former governor of Texas, commenting on bi-lingual education.

"We do not believe that advertising causes anyone, including minors, to start smoking," J. J. Morgan, CEO, Phillip Morris.

"The FDA bans anything that's non-toxic, innovative and doesn't come from the pharmaceutical industry." Douglas Brodie, M.D.

"The quickest way to get an audience to shout is to play something quiet." Frank Zappa.

"I would have made a good Pope." Richard Nixon.

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken, is sung." Voltaire.

 

""Rock Journalism is people who can't write, preparing stories based on people who can't talk, in order to amuse people who can't read." Frank Zappa.

"When I'm thinking of God I'm a Buddhist, when I'm in pain and despair I'm a Christian" Peter Gabriel.

 

"Government of the Exxons, by the General Motors, for the Du Ponts" Ralph Nader.

 

"You don't eat recipes," Frank Zappa.

"A lie can get halfway around the world before truth has even put it's boots on," Mark Twain.

"One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny." Bertrand Russell.

 

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." Mae West.

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." William Blake

"Vigilance is one step away from paranoia"Tom Hodgkinson

"Do what you don't know how to do" Sid Vicious.

"He who knows tells it not, he who tells knows it not." Lao Tsu

"Rests always sound well." Schoenberg.

"Friends don't let friends vote Republican" anon. bumper sticker...

 

"I conceive of nothing in religion, science and philosophy that is more than the proper thing to wear for awhile." Charles Fort.

Oxymoron: "Luddites website"

"Russia: From Communism to Capitalism, without the intervening period of democracy". anon.

"Beatitude for the GOP: Blessed are the mean for they shall inherit the earth." T.Chodsworth

"Something unknown is doing something we don't know what" Sir Arthur Eddington.

 

"640k ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981.

 

"The weather doesn't take the weekend off" The Weather Channel

"When Freedom is outlawed, only outlaws have freedom".

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." David Icke

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Gandhi

"It's not where you're from, it's where you're at." Ian from The Stone Roses

"The whole universe is a large joke. Everything in the universe are subdivisions of this joke, so why take anything too seriously." Frank Zappa.

 

"Accept nothing you cannot verify for yourself" Gurdjieff

"Cogito eggo sum: I think therefore I am a waffle."

"Listener's conditioning: the military dictator of acceptable music." N. Green

"Whatever happened to the other cheek?" N. Green

"The American legal system: the golden rule is that those with the gold make the rules." anon.

"Christians, Republicans and Nazis, O My" Gay Dog from South Park.

"Combing the streets for intelligence, I stumbled on more stupidity than I'd ever imagined." Johnny Rotten.

 

"Being a rock musician is a bit like being in the trenches in WWI: 90 percent boredom, 10 percent terror." Bill Bruford.

 

 

 

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes." Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

 

 

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." Farmer's Almanac.

'The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." Tacitus.

"Hardening of the categories leads to a restriction of the arts." comment on the music industry.

"Politicians are interested in people, not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke.

 

"Democracy is a form of religion: It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." H.L. Mencken

"What luck for rules that men do not think" Hitler.

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." Frank Zappa.

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations". Oscar Wilde

 

"When the playing field gets tilted too far, everyone falls off". N. Green.

 

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln.

"People think the FDA is protecting them -- it isn't. What the FDA is doing, and what people think it's doing, are as different as night and day." Herbert Ley, Jr. MD, former Commissioner of the FDA.

"Better to have a bleeding heart than no heart, better to be politically correct than politically corrupt." anon.

 

"Democracy: the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." Oscar Wilde.

"Democracy: Choosing from the lesser of two evils is still evil." Jerry Garcia.

"Cannibalism is a radical form of hospitality." Jean Baudrillard.

"Money is like manure; the higher you pile it the more it stinks, but if you spread it around, it grows things" Dennis Weaver.

"To every man is given the keys to the gates of Heaven. That same key opens the gates of Hell." Buddhist proverb.

"Society is produced by our wants, and governments by our wickedness." Thomas Paine.

 

"Man is a tool making animal." Benjamin Franklin.

"Human security is a matter of human dignity. It is a child who does not die, a disease that does not spread, an ethnic tension that does not explode, a dissident who is not silenced, a human spirit that is not crushed." -- unknown.

"The only notes that matter come in a wad" Johnny Rotten.

"The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success." Wolfgang Sachs.

"Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system." Jerry Brown

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." De Balzac.

 

 

"If you were my husband, I would feed you poison" Lady Astor.

"If you were my wife, Madam, I would take it." Churchill.

 

"The definition of insanity is the repetition of the same action expecting a different result." John Laroquette.

 

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change." Dan Quayle.

 

"In the US as you know we are sympathetic with what you are trying to do" Kissinger to Pinochet [brutal Chilean dictator accused of mass murder] June 1976

 

"Cut out the political science lectures" Kissinger, scrawling on a cable from the US Ambassador to Chile reporting on atrocities.

 

"In times of war, the first casualty is truth." anon.

"If you see something you don't understand, smash it." Viv Stanshall (Bonzos Dog Band).

 

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." David Icke.

"The Trouble with being in the Rat Race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Lily Tomlin

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Picasso

"There once was a lady named Bright,

Who traveled much faster than light,

She departed one day, in a relative way,

and returned on the previous night." -- unknown

"The only consistent people are the dead"

Aldous Huxley.

 

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" Frank Zappa.

"For most people their schooling has interfered with their education." anon.

 

"Only dead fish flow with the current". --unknown.

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." -- unknown.

 

"It's best to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to post to a public message board and remove all doubt." -- unknown.

 

"Without music, life would be a mistake" Neitzsche

"Physics is just mathematics, with the added constraint of reality thrown in" -- unknown

"Christians, Republicans and Nazis, O My" Gay Dog from South Park.

 

 

 

 

"Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans and the catastrophe towards which is headed -- be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable." Vaclav Havel

 

"Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance." Hendrik Van Loon (1882-1944)

"Just how unknown this cheery neo-fascist paper is to the majority of Americans..." Gore Vidal commenting on the Wall Street Journal's self assessment as "the world's most important publication".

 

"We all say we want peace and happiness but

all the soul really wants is trouble" - Yeats.

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave"

---Frederick Douglass

"A computer is like an old testament god, lots of rules and no mercy" Joseph Campbell

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S. Thompson

"The only good thing to ever come out of religion was the music." George Carlin.

"Lose your mind and come to your senses." Fritz Perls

"The challenge is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else." unknown

"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." Frank Zappa

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." H.L. Mencken





Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
Only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate:
Only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate,
Violence multiplies Violence,
And toughness multiplies toughness
In a descending spiral of destruction
The chain reaction of evil--
Hate begetting hate,
Wars producing more wars--
Must be broken,
Or we shall be plunged into the darkness of annihilation.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved
by the same level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein

"Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it." Einstein.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty."
Thomas Jefferson

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave
mankind, and monopolize power and profit." ----Thomas Paine


No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. --- H. L. Mencken

 "You know, I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my Dad. I worked in the oil business. " -- George W. Bush 1989.

 

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism

since it is the merger of state and corporate power" Benito Mussolini

(after all, he should know...)