If you're going through hell, keep going.


You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Both Winston Churchill.

"Nuts!"- Brigader General Anthony McAuliffe (101st Airborne), responding to the German call for surrender at Bastogne.

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
—John Steinbeck

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

Robert Pirsig

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
—Tacitus

"Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more."
—Ten Years After, I'd Love To Change The World

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling

"Something in the way she moos, attracts me like no udder lover"

Bernie the cow

Sounds like a load of bull to...
-Me

Well there's something you don't see everyday - Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

“If a man in the West cannot imagine democracy without separation of church and state, many in the Muslim world find it impossible to imagine legitimate democracy with it” -- Noah Feldman

The aristocracy and the church once ruled our world, both partners made politics, the church indoctrinated the people what to support, what to fear, to accept the given circumstances.
With democracy we disempowered both and while the church lost political influence, the aristocracy used its advantage of property and money in the age of industrialisation and formed corporations. The state powers used them to reach their objectives - the merger of state power and corporate power is known as fascism.

Meanwhile the leader of the combo has changed and the corporate power uses the state powers to reach their objectives. Buying the presidency is socially accepted and the revolving door between state and corporations never stops. Let's call it Neo-Fascism - or corporate oligarchy.

The job of the church has been taken by the media. Their priests show us the former glass windows and mural paintings in TV and newspapers now and the preachment is told on TV or in written form. They tell us what to support, what to fight, who's good or bad, what to bear and what to buy. Our new religion is the Gospel of Dow Jones and we are overwhelmed by economy data every day. It's as intense as praying five times a day to the east. :yep:

In other parts of the world the history went different and the church kept their power and controls the economy as the daily pie of religion. They run a democracy as we do and it is as effective as ours. But they are the bad ones - says our Lord - because their democracy is fake. It's socially accepted, but only because the poor people don't know better and are indoctrinated by their true rulers. :yep:

And goddamn they've got our oil...



Oh - and a quote?

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”― Mahatma Gandhi

"Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way"
—Henry David Thoreau

"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
—Gideon J. Tucker