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发帖数: 3365 | 1 “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks
power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of
others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means
you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the
past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who
resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the
Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never
had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they
even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited
time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human
beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one
ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a
means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to
safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the
dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of
torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to
understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging
people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for
no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a
long time. ”
― George Carlin
“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help
him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for
housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting
labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the
better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend
money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and
hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They consider electrical
power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their
rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long
as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the
United States so much that they would like to buy it.”
― Harry S. Truman
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always
wrong.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles:
Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed
up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has
already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never
ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the
country -- vote Republican. ”
― Barbara Ehrenreich
“How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must
have been a Republican. ”
― Will Durst
“Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the
world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Mid Ocean
“Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, I think everybody can agree
that politicians are crooks. But I don’t think politicians are thieves,
because you can’t steal what you’ve been given. Once we stop giving in,
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