User:Christopher Mann McKay/mq

Law and politics ↑
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
 * —Henry David Thoreau

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
 * —Malcolm X

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
 * —John F. Kennedy

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
 * —Jacob Hornberger (1995)

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
 * —Milton Friedman

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
 * —Thomas Jefferson

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
 * —Adlai Stevenson

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
 * —Ramsey Clark

..the floor of the heart of the crisis between east and west, between the Muslim world and the rest, is the half-century or more of injustice visited upon the Palestinian, people paid for, organized, and armed by the United States of America.
 * —George Galloway during September 112005 speech in Chicago

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Truth and news are not the same thing.
 * —Katharine Graham

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
 * —Albert Einstein

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
 * —Leo Tolstoy

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
 * —Timothy Leary