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Created on 2006-05-19 16:03:50 (#10272191), last updated 2009-11-14
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Bio"They got a message from the action man. I'm happy, hope you're happy too. I've loved all I've needed love. Sordid details following." - David Bowie
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practice thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly fed animal. Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization." - Oscar Wilde
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction." - John Steinbeck
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever." - Clarence Darrow
"What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes." - Samuel Adams
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire
"Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty." - Benjamin Franklin
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw
"You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power." - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman
“Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him. He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right.” - Waylon Jennings
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practice thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly fed animal. Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization." - Oscar Wilde
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction." - John Steinbeck
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever." - Clarence Darrow
"What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes." - Samuel Adams
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire
"Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty." - Benjamin Franklin
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw
"You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power." - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman
“Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him. He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right.” - Waylon Jennings
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