"This grosses me the fuck out!" --Shanista from Cleveland, OH

Good! --The VP

Government as the lesser of two weevils...

"For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils, to choose the least."

--Thomas Paine

"Government can not obviate the defect in Man's moral character as any State will be compromised by the same vices which infect the Men who comprise it."

--The Virtuous Pornographer

"Never fear that you will fail to meet your social obligations if you do good without looking for reward."

--Marcus Aurelius

"He , who has command over Men, must not have command over Laws; neither must he, who has command over Laws, have command over Men."

--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"There is no greater Honor than to serve the Public Trust and there is no greater crime than to betray that Trust."

--The Virtuous Pornographer

"Those who desire Virtue for its own sake, desire it either because the consciousness of it is a pleasure, or because the consciousness of being without it is a pain..."

--John Stuart Mill

"Truth alone is but a weak motive of action with Men." --Carl von Clausewitz

"Capitalism has neither the capacity nor the morality nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty."

--Fidel Castro

"There is no one in any [State] who, is so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what is for his own interest, but always what is the interest of his subjects..." --Plato, THE REPUBLIC

When I give money to the poor, the call me a Saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. --Dom Heldar Camara