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Quoting Laurence J. Peter

22 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Laurence J. Peter

Quoting Ansel Adams

22 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Ansel Adams

Quoting Julian Barnes

21 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.""The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Julian Barnes

Quoting Alan Moore

21 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Alan Moore

Quoting Jonah Goldberg

20 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Jonah Goldberg

Quoting Abraham Lincoln

20 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.""Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.""Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to … [Read more...] about Quoting Abraham Lincoln

Quoting Johnny Depp

19 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Johnny Depp

Quoting John Steinbeck

18 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments"Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting John Steinbeck

Quoting Mahatma Gandhi

18 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality""Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.""A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.""Be the change that you want to see in the world.""The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.""I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.""Strength does not come from … [Read more...] about Quoting Mahatma Gandhi

Quoting John F. Kennedy

17 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting John F. Kennedy

Quoting Robert Mugabe

17 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.""Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. … [Read more...] about Quoting Robert Mugabe

Quoting Jiddu Krishnamurti

15 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Jiddu Krishnamurti

Quoting Mmusi Maimane

15 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"It is clear that if you stand up to Zuma, you don't stick around, zuma has reached new heights as a leader who puts himself ahead of his country and the economy.""I'm not fundamentally capitalist or socialist. If you held a gun to my head, I would say I believe in a declining state and increasing private sector, I would work closely with unions but we're not compromised by being in an unhealthy alliance with them.""The injury of racial inequality is compounded by the insult of racism. It is … [Read more...] about Quoting Mmusi Maimane

Quoting James Bovard

14 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting James Bovard

Quoting Julius Malema

14 July 2016 By Alan Straton

"Rubbish in your trouser: You can go out...rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser – that is rubbish. That which you have covered in [your] clothes is rubbish, ok? You are a small boy you can't do anything. Go out...bastard! Go out! You bloody agent!""I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.""You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.""I was never asked to debate Lindiwe. I am not going to use our profile to … [Read more...] about Quoting Julius Malema

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