Favorite Quotes (in no particular order):
 
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing… It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government… God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion… The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” - Thomas Jefferson
 
 
“Success: To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have suceeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree – to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars – we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it is a strong one.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer
 
 
“It’s almost a suicidal technique. You can’t lie to kids. Drug education is a uniformed policeman coming into the first grade and telling all these fucking lies (about marijuana) so that by the time (the kids are) in junior high and they’ve tried it, they know you’re full of shit. Marijuana IS a gateway drug – it teaches you disrespect for authority.” - Timothy Leary
 
 
“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.” - P.J. O’Rourke
 
 
“And if she finds me so repulsive
She wouldn’t be the first to wretch
Well i decided one day long ago
I was never gonna be the greatest catch
And if she cares about the car i drive
Then she can get in hers
The moment i arrive” - Eels
 
 
“A lack of preparation or organization on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
 
 
“Sports is another crucial example of the indoctrination system . . . It offers people something to pay attention to that is of no importance . . . It keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have an idea of something about . . . People have the most exotic information and understanding about all sorts of arcane issues . . . It’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements, in fact its training in irrational jingoism . . . That’s why energy is devoted to supporting them . . . and advertisers are willing to pay for them.” - Noam Chomsky from Manufacturing Consent
 
 
“In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.” - James Agee
 
 
“Harry, there’s two kinds of tired. There’s good tired and there’s bad tired. Ironically enough, bad tired can be a day that you won but you won other people’s battles, you lived other people’s days, other people’s agendas, other people’s dreams. And when it was all over, there was very little you in there, and when you hit the hay at night somehow you toss and turn, and you don’t settle easy. Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost, but you don’t even have to tell yourself cause you know you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days, and when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say ‘take me away.” - Jim Chapin
 
 
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” - Albert Einstein
 
 
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living things, we are still savages.” - Thomas Edison
 
 
“What is moral is simply what does not hurt others. Kindness… sums up everything.” - Barbara Walker
 
 
“The Bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 
 
“Always question everything.” - Albert Einstein
 
 
“I pledge allegiance to the dollar of the United States of America, and to the plutocracy for which it stands, one nation under greed, divisible, with Liberty and Justice for the rich.”