Linux Politics

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
                -- Otto Von Bismarck

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction
rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
                -- John Kenneth Galbraith

People that can't find something to live for always seem to find something to
die for.  The problem is, they usually want the rest of us to die for it too.

People usually get what's coming to them ... unless it's been mailed.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world
citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
                -- Norman Cousins

Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would
behave very differently from those who now hold it -- when, in truth, in
order to get power we would have to become very much like them.  (Lenin's
fatal mistake, both in theory and in practice.)

Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political
leaders.
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiares", 1st century BC

Pilfering Treasury property is paticularly dangerous: big thieves are
ruthless in punishing little thieves.
                -- Diogenes

Poland has gun control.

Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to
teach children.
                -- W.H. Auden