"If President Clinton has his way, we will have a false debate in the 1996 election campaign. It will not engage real political choices - choices framed by our appetite for government services and our distaste for taxes - but rather artificial choices crafted by Clinton to advance his reelection. Clinton has clearly been using the budget as an election platform...I dislike using the word 'lies,' but Clinton exploits such forbearance (widespread in the press) to spread untruths."

-- Robert J. Samuelson

#Real Quotes #Lying Quotes #Government Quotes

“I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”
“Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.”

Source : John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

Source : Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group
“Group Material is itself collaborative, which is non-hierarchical and we don't use the corporate model which is along lines of expertise but we work together and take responsibility as a group for every aspect of the work. And then there's a collaboration or dialogue with those artists and non-artists we work with, in terms of participation in the various projects.”
“It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 918, 1946.
“The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.”
“... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr
“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2007). “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”, p.233, Vintage

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