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...
When I got the opportunity to start working at home a couple of years ago, I jumped at the chance, envisioning the huge spike in productivity that would...
Most of the leading Democrats in the country refer to themselves as progressives, a way in their case of avoiding the dreaded "liberal" tag. . . . It has...
I am a progressive first and a Democrat second. -- Julie Bergman Sender Rigorous, creative teaching, not kill-and-drill test-driven instruction, fosters...
More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. -- John P. Pryor Liberals believe government...
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. -- Eric Hoffer Why do...
The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better...
The people who still say that global warming isn't real are actually in the same boat with the flat earth society. They get together and party on Saturday...
The cosmos isn't designed with you in mind. -- Christopher Hitchens Iraq is, and forever will be, one of the most extraordinary wastes in all of American...
