Thursday, November 11, 2010

Even More Good Quotes about LIfe

God is literally what we call a metaphor.

Your fellow American citizens are not your enemy.

Life is judged to be its own reward if a person attained a fullness of years, had children, and was gathered to his own.

I am proud to stand on the side of love and acceptance instead of fear and prejudice.

I am not better or smarter, just luckier.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pike

Know ye not that ye are gods?

The truth is, that the greatest enemies of the doctrine of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them to the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and with out any foundation in his genuine words, and the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, April 11, 1823

Faith is believing in something without good reason to do so.

Human progress is an evolution away from superstition, witchcraft, and idol worship.

I wonder where all the deficit hawks were from 2001-2009 while we gave away our surplus and started two wars, one without cause. Now, suddenly, fiscal responsibility is a rallying cry - as if the problem started last year.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regime of their barbarous ancestors. - Thomas Jefferson

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist from the Middle East who gives away free healthcare. That would be Jesus.

The real test of a democracy is not so much the behavior of the winners; it will be the behavior of the losers.

You cannnot be all for democracy when you are winning an argument and then be against it when you are losing. - John Meacham

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing - after exhausting all other options. - Winston Churchill

Intelligence can not separate itself from patriotic activism without it becoming bigotry, hatred, gloom and doom saying, and scare tactics. -= Albert Camus

You talk to god, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. - Doris Egan

On the first day man created god.

Proud to be everything the right wing hates.

I am not afraid of something that does not exist.

The bible should come with a disclaimer:
1. This is a work of fiction.
2. Belief in this book puts your intellect in peril.

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