"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in . . . to kind of catapult the propaganda."
--George W. Bush, May 24, 2005
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
"Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "safe" that I wasn't previously aware of."
--Arthur Dent
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
--Thomas Paine
"I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment."
-- Karl Barth
"In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy."
--David Korten