If you push the envelope, like to live on the edge and manage to do so without getting too badly hurt, think for yourself and follow the beat of that different drummer, have a good heart and integrity, live each day as if it were your last without forgetting to plan for timorrow, I would love to meet you. And if you're also irreverent and have a great sense of humor, I promise to love you forever.
"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
About friending me:
If you want to add me and it isn't obvious from your profile what we have in common, just pushing the add button isn't going to do it. Especially if your profile picture looks like a porn bot. I deny those without even looking. Instead, send me an email and tell me why or write a comment or two in my blog first, so I know where you're coming from.
An Inconvenient Truth, Bowling for Columbine,
The Corporation, Fahrenheit 9/11
The Sixth Sense, AI, Pay It Forward
Terminator, Dune, Spider-Man, Matrix, LOTR
Blade Runner, The Green Mile
Ground Hog Day, Practical Magic, Sweet November
Chocolat, Kate and Leopold
Reservoir Dogs, Momento
The L-Word
Queer As Folk
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinland)
1984 (Orwell)
Brave New World (Huxley
Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
The End of Faith (Harris)
The Assault on Reason (Gore)
The God Delusion (Dawkins)
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
- Take it yourself (free) -
Extraversion |||||||||||| 46%
Stability |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Orderliness |||||||||||||| 53%
Accommodation |||||| 30%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 70%
Mystical || 10%
Artistic || 10%
Religious || 10%
Hedonism |||||| 23%
Materialism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 43%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 56%
Work ethic |||||| 30%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 70%
Conflict seeking |||||||||| 36%
Domination need |||||||||||| 43%
Romantic |||||||||||||| 56%
Avoidant || 10%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Wealth |||||| 23%
Dependency || 10%
Change averse |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Cautiousness |||||| 30%
Individuality |||| 16%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
PeterPan cmplx || 10%
Phys security |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||| 64%
Histrionic |||||| 23%
Paranoia || 10%
Vanity |||||||||||| 50%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||| 43%
Female cliche || 10%
Gandhi, and ...
You're my everyday hero if you have the courage to be real and the strength of character to be fully honest.
You're my hero if you stand by your friends and family and don't take shit from anyone, but you know how to let the other guy save face.
You're my hero if you know how to play the game, but you don't get caught up in it.
You are able, as if by magic, to manifest what you want if this lifetime, but you have compassion for the folks that can't. You walk your talk and you treat folks the way you want to be treated.
And you let me win once in a blue moon when we play pool :)
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Mr. President, ... on your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airlines, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.
- Bill Maher
When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.
- Thomas Paine
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
- Patrick Henry
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H.L. Mencken
Orwell is starting to look like an optimist!
- unknown
Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
- George Washington
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- George Orwell
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Ghandi
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
- Issac Asimov
A Politician is a patriot who is prepared to lay down your life for his country
- Peter Clark
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- James Madison
How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- attributed to Benjamin Franklin
In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.
- August Bebel, 1870
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
- Howard Zinn
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they can profit from it.
- George Orwell
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Ghandi
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
- Howard Thurman
When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
War cannot be humanized, only abolished
- Albert Einstein
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mahatma Ghandi
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
- Arundhati Roy
It's always the old who lead us to the war,
It's always the young who fall,
Now look at all we've won
With the sabre and the gun,
Tell me is it worth it at all.
- Phil Ochs
It takes better intelligence to prevent wars than it does to start them.
- Kenneth H. Landay
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
- Robert Lynd
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
- Thomas Jefferson
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy...
We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
- Dennis J. Kucinich
It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social change is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the silence of the so-called good people.
- Martin Luther King
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell
This year will go down in history... Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.
- Adolf Hitler
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt
Democracies die behind closed doors.
- Judge Damon J. Keith, Federal Court of Appeals
I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.
- Ammon Hennacy
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Salvor Hardin
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
- John Lennon
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- James Madison
Nationalism is an infantile disease; it is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does.
- Margaret Mead
Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
- Benjamin Franklin
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat for it is only momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.
- Charlie Chaplin
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
- Gerry Adams
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
- Thomas Paine
I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood to do the fighting for them.
- Emma Goldman
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
- Albert Einstein
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X
All we are saying...is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas Gandhi
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
War is not the answer for only love can conquer hate.
- Marvin Gaye
Nonviolence, pacifism, that's the greatest thing that I think the human species has to aspire to, because otherwise it's not going to be around.
- Martin Scorsese
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
- Cesar Chavez
MySpace Heroes
People who hate government cannot run it.
- Neil (On BushCo)
Fuck the military-industrial complex that puts profits before human lives.
- Kim
It does not matter to which ethnic group you belong, or which religion you ascribe to, or the mistakes you have made; to me, you are valuable simply because you exist.
- Jennifer
I do believe that the United States is at a pivotal point, now more than at any other time in our history it is imperative that we use our brains to navigate our way through the current political landscape.
- Jennifer
I am greatful for my place in the world but feel it is now time to share a little more, to stop making greed the new god, to stop being scared of strangers and to demand that every child have a full belly, a warm bed and an education.
- Thats Mr Twat to you
In his six years as U.S. president, George W. Bush has done more shameful things than any previous president. Yes, some killed Native Americans; some approved slavery; some robbed the treasury and some disgraced the name of the USA. Bush has done all of these and more. He has sent our young to their deaths in a war for oil. He has shredded the civil liberties of all of us. I weep for the lost opportunities of the last six years to wage peace and create happiness across the world.
- Gita
I want my America back!
- Helen
If you are not ashamed of what has been done by this country in your name, then I am ashamed that you are a fellow American.
- Dan