Linux Politics

In fiction the recourse of the powerless is murder; in life the recourse
of the powerless is petty theft.

In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.  Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.  Then they came
for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up.
                -- Pastor Martin Niemoller

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance.  In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
                -- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of
assassination.
                -- John Diefenbaker

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
                -- Lenny Bruce

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used to frequently take
my advice.
                -- Winston Churchill

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
                -- Napoleon

In war, truth is the first casualty.
                -- U Thant

... indifference is a militant thing ... when it goes away it leaves
smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat.  It is
not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.
                -- Stephen Crane