PandemicSoul Quotelog

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

(via Vagabox Burn)

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

(via Vagabox Burn)

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

(via Vagabox Burn)

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

(via Vagabox Burn)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

(via Vagabox Burn)

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

(via Vagabox Burn)

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Take only memories; leave nothing but footprints.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.