"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
—Letter to Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887 ANONYMOUS

Power corrupts;
Absolute power corrupts absolutely;
God is all powerful;
Draw your own conclusions. AMBROSE BIERCE

"ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity."
—The Devil's Dictionary RANDOLPH BOURNE

"War is the health of the state."
—The State AL CAPONE

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
—Attributed DWIGHT EISENHOWER

"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before."
—Attributed ANATOLE FRANCE

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." REGGIE JACKSON

"For the right amount of money, you're willing to eat Alpo."
—Quoted in The Sporting News, February 1, 1988 MALCOLM X

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
—Quoted in Propaganda Review, Spring 1989 H.L. MENCKEN

"The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages."
—Minority Report WILLIAM MESSING

"Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor."
—Quoted in The Match!, No. 28 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Christians call it faith . . . I call it the herd . . ."
—Beyond Good and Evil

". . . that little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken—such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes it triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity."
—The Anti-Christ REVEREND PAT ROBERTSON

"If you wanted to get America destroyed, if you were a malevolent, evil force and you said, How can I turn God against America? What can I do to get God mad at the people of America to cause this great land to vomit out the people?' Well, I'd pick five things. I'd begin to have incest. I'd begin to commit adultery wherever possible, all over the country, and sexuality. I'd begin to have them offering up and killing their babies. I'd get them having homosexual relations, and then I'd have them having sex with animals."
—Quoted in the San Francisco Examiner, September 7, 1986 GEORGE STEINBRENNER

"I think we could put Adolf Hitler in center field and fans would cheer for him if he hit .350."
—Quoted in The Sporting News, March 13, 1989 MARK TWAIN

"Adam was human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."
—Pudd'nhead Wilson OSCAR WILDE

"All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies [government by the masses] are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people."
—The Soul of Man Under Socialism