We can't escape responsibility, there's no sitting out moral decisions, and whenever we refuse to stand up against wrongdoing we're actually supporting the...
All of the tortured, twisted rationales for this war — all of the fatuous intellectual pyrotechnics dreamed up to justify it — have vaporized, and we're...
Conservatives worry that kids today grow up wanting to be porn stars; liberals fear they want to be investment bankers. -- David Callahan Beginning with...
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. -- Susan B. Anthony I'm a...
If Congress doesn't stop this war, it's not because it doesn't have the power. It's because it doesn't have the will. -- Russ Feingold Most conservatives are...
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson I wonder sometimes what galvanizing event will bring Americans out of the malls....
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience. -- Vaclav Havel American suburbia represents the greatest misallocation of...
The fatal difference between corporations and people is that corporations are necessarily irresponsible. It's in the charter. They have to profit . . . Our...
I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires. -- Patrick Finnegan, dean of the United States Military Academy at West Point to the...
Where is the outrage over the 3,164 dead and 23,677 wounded American soldiers? Where is the remorse over the 650,000 dead Iraqis? -- Beth Quinn Scrotum --...
How can we humans imagine that we are the crowning achievement of an Intelligent Designer? -- Caroline Arnold We are all much more alike than not, and we are...
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. -- Gloria Steinem The media's appetite for celebrity-driven drivel can never be satisfied. --...
Orwell's fascist "1984" is already here and it's called the American workplace. -- Barbara Ehrenreich Wisdom lies in being tolerant of your own complexity and...
Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle. -- Rita Rudner Measuring failure...
Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do. -- Joel Bakan The forces now dominating America are moving relentlessly to shift...
I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or...
The original sin of Republicanism is greed. -- John Scalzi In the US, there are roughly 17,000 murders a year, of which about 15,000 are committed with...
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of men that try to. -- Elbert Hubbard Jones Returning violence for violence multiplies...
If I drive a gas guzzling 12 cylinder vehicle knowing what I know now about carbon emissions and our dependence on foreign oil, I am basically saying that I...
With wisdom we shall learn liberality. -- Henry David Thoreau Teaching is hard work, and the rest of us should not do anything to make it harder. -- Diane...
The Democrats, who were brought to power in Congress to end the war, have just signed on to another $120 billion for that war. -- Matthew Rothschild After...
Understanding themselves as victims besieged by a hateful world absolves conservatives of responsibility for what goes on around them. It excuses them for...
I find myself speculating on what might have been if the man who got the most votes in 2000 had actually become president. It's like imagining an alternate...
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have been committed...
Rich white men still compose about 80 percent of the Senate, their average age is 62, and even those who call themselves Democrats often think and act like...
Be honest. Who would you rather share a foxhole with: a gay soldier or Mitt Romney? A gay soldier, of course. In a dicey situation like that, you need someone...
The prevailing models of leadership today have been the leader as panderer or the leader as fear monger. -- Arianna Huffington Our way of life -- our...
High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. -- Emma Goldman Marriage is...
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx For social conservatives sex is a realm of danger, where any transgression from...
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. -- Dante Teach your children to regard the land...
