Politics Quotes ...
"Lies built on deceptions. A nation's history cloaked in murder. The idea of a ruling class is still very much with us. Ninety percent of all wealth is inherited wealth. We may have lost the titles, but an aristocracy still flourishes." - boy sets fire, "prologue"
"on the face of every american worker is the constant fear that their job won't remain." - boy sets fire, "when rhetoric dies"
"If you love this country, take it back, from those who will destroy it. Protest is patriotism." - boy sets fire, "eviction article"
"The story of America is a story best seen through the eyes of its people. It is a story built on the idea of freedom, through the common efforts of a nation united. America, now over 200 years old, is a country that is different from all others, in that it offers equal opportunity to anyone, regardless of gender, sexuality or race. It is on this creed that the story of America was founded. Unfortunately, that is all it is. A story." - boy sets fire, "prologue"
"We all come from the same place and we all have something in common; we have seen society and we don't like it." - boy sets fire, "holiday in Cambodia"
"Blacks fear whites, whites fear anyone different, and we all fear that which we do not know, even though, according to many studies, violent crime statistics are down. We keep adding more police and giving those police more and more power." - boy sets fire, "voiceover"
"We are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, history is written from the biased perspective of the power elite. From our birth we are told lies and myths and expected not to only believe them, but to worship them at America's false altar of progress. We must learn to question history and measure each 'fact' on its own merits." - boy sets fire, "the tyranny of what everyone knows"
"Around the world, and in America specifically, we are being subjected to a regularly scheduled program of fear and violence brought to us by a twin attack of the media and politicians who feed our fears on each other." - boy sets fire, "voiceover"
"We are trading our rights for the illusion of safety and in doing so we give the real criminals even more potency." - boy sets fire, "voiceover"
"The rich stay rich, and the poor die of quietly. The power remains the same." - boy sets fire, "the power remains the same"
" I was in the German Club. There were only three of us, and then two of us left to join the French Club after seeing 'Schindler's List.' "- Gilmore girls
" I feel so rich and suddenly in complete agreement with everything Bush has to say. " - Gilmore girls
"'do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it -- and have it repeated to us -- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"The real American is not a gold chaser or money lover, as the legend classes him, but an idealist and a mystic. Not that I mean for a moment to say that the American is without senses. On the contrary, the Anglo-Saxon in general, or the American with some Celtic blood is, when it comes to the crucial moment, more fiery than the Italian, more sensuous than the French, more capable of desperate excesses than are the Russians. But the habit of early training has enclosed his temperament in a wall of iron, frosted over, and these things only come to pass when some extraordinary incident of life breaks through his reserve. Then one might say that the Anglo-Saxon or Celt is of all the nations the most fiery lover." � My Life by Isadora Duncan
"And both sides say they're winning, and both sides know they're losing, and neither one knows what they're fighting for." - Martina McBride, "the uncivil war"
"Everyone understands the nature of war. We also understand that victory depends on the cards that we have been dealt. Some, when faced with a bloody battle, simply give in. But for some, surrender is unacceptable. Even though they know it will be a fight to the death." - Desperate Housewives
"No, being the poster girl for censorship is not a little funny. The only videos not behind that curtain are Bambi and Dumbo. I mean, they actually had a meeting earlier about whether or not Babe should be behind the curtain so as not to offend people who keep kosher! " � Gilmore Girls
"Nothing destroys spirit like poverty. " � Becoming Jane
"I had long since learned that you couldn't lump all people with money into one category. The wealthy were as varied as the downtrodden. Some were hardworking, some lazy. Some self-made, some born with a silver spoon. Some modest and understated, some ostentatious braggarts." � Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
