Tip

FBI: FBI terrorism tip line.
   
Huey: It’s Huey again. Got another hot lead on a terrorist.
  
FBI: Lord…Huey, we don’t have time for this. I’m hanging up.
  
Huey: Wait! I got a good one this time!
  
FBI: (sigh) .. (Uh-huh…
   
Huey: Kissinger, Henry, Former secretary of state under Nixon, allegedly responsible for the deaths of about 950,000 civilians in Laos and Cambodia in the early 1970s.

if you’re having trouble finding him, ask the guys who gave him the Nobel peace prize.
   
Hello?

       
--Aaron McGruder, "The Boondocks", (1/22/2002).

Independence II

"We have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence."
--John W. Raper,
"What This World Needs" (1954)

Controls II

"In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded 'there should be cheapness,' declaring, 'Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies...march...  Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed.' The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices--that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities."
--Walter E. Williams,
"Economics for the Citizen" (1978)

Codebook

"At the heart of the durability of mass schooling is a brilliantly designed power fragmentation system which distributes decision-making so widely among so many different warring interests that large-scale change is impossible to those without a codebook."
--John Taylor Gatto,
"The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling"

Infusoria

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same ... Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
--H.G. Wells,
"The War Of The Worlds"

Marketing

"The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,'"
--Douglas Adams,
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Detest

"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
--Stephen Leacock,
"Literary Lapses"

Vanquished II

"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief."
--Ed Kinane,
"War: Realities and Myths" (Article)

Exalt

"Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy."
--Louis Farrakhan

Hanging III

"Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it."
--Bill Hicks

Boastfully

"You know, that might be the answer--to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail."
--Joseph Heller,
"Catch-22"

Form II

"English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts."
--James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)
British author and historian Source:
Short Studies on Great Subjects, 1872

Together III

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
--Woody Allen

Impatience

"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valueable, and your freedom less complete."
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist
Source: Speech in the House of Commons, March 31, 1850

Tyrant

"Truth is a tyrant--the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism."
--John F. Kennedy

All-Embracing

"The party is all-embracing. It rules our lives in all their breadth and depth...  There will be no license, no free space, in which the individual belongs to himself. This is Socialism...  Let them then own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over them, regardless whether they are owners or workers."
--Adolf Hitler

Rumors

"Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?"
--Ray Bradbury

Blue

"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."
--L. Frank Baum,
"The Road to Oz"

Savor

"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."
--A.E. Samaan

Attack

"Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better."
--Jerry Rubin

Sickening

Patriotism is as sickening today as it has ever been. I was watching the news before you came and there was a lot of coverage of Kosovo and the problems there. They showed footage of people burning an American flag. And the newscaster got all broken up and teary-eyed. He says, "I guess [sob] I just feel something here, folks, when I see the American flag being burned." And I said, You fucking asshole. Whatever happened to the news?
--Gore Vidal

Foolproof

"One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action."
--Robert Ringer

Happiness IX

"Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable."
--John Lennon

Blessings II

"Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. ...
Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy."
--Big Brother,
from George Lucas's movie, "THX 1138"

Suppose IV

"But the one thing you should not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts only."
--Ezra  Pound,
"Guide to Kulchur" (1938)

Dispose

"[W]hat was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for. it was as though while their lives were rich and full they were secretly sick of themselves and couldn’t wait to dispose of their sanity and their health and all sense of proportion so as to get down to that other self, the true self, who was a wholly deluded fuckup."
--Philip Roth,
"American Pastoral"

Altruistic

"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive."
--Ayn Rand

Abundance

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt