The Universe doesn't revolve around YOU.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

Bob Marley.

It's harder to lie with statistics than it is to lie without them.

Just think how stupid the average person is. Realize that half of them are even stupider.

George Carlin.

If God is God, He is not good, If God is good, He is not God.

An oft-quoted passage from Archibald MacLeish's verse play, JB, which is based on the Biblical book of Job.

The context is

I heard upon his dry dung heap,
That man cry out, who cannot sleep:
"If God is God, He is not good,
If God is good, He is not God;
Take the even, take the odd,
I would not sleep here if I could
Except for the little green leaves in the wood
And the wind on the water."

SOV Drivers, not SUV Drivers, are the Real SOB's.

Jim Morris says: Two people in an SUV use the same amount of gas as a Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV). Let's increase the occupancy rate to reduce congestion, pollution, and loneliness.

Blessed are those who expect little. They are seldom disappointed.

Tony Hillerman's Mom.

We're an empire. Get over it.

Jim Morris, who adds:

I recently heard a talk that the the US was actively planning a war with Japan from 1897 to 1945, prompted by a book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (Dodo Press) that everyone (US, Japan, Germany, Britain) read and followed as a blueprint.

Learn to fake sincerity and you'll have it made.

Socialize Risk. Privatize Gain.

Nouriel Roubini.

We make a desert, and call it Progress.

Tacitus?

Ask yourself: Who's really better off now than they were 8 years ago?

Onward Muslim soldiers, marching as to war, with the sword of Allah, going on before.

They really are a lot like us, aren't they?

Does have a nice rhythm to it, though, especially if sung to Sir Arthur Sullivan's St. Gertrude.

Let the sermon finish before you cook the missionary.

Dragon Knight's World.

Exponential growth never lasts forever.

Something that Wall Street repeatedly forgets.

GOD is NOT a Republican ... or a Democrat.

Yes, it's very insecure. But think of the savings!

Bruce Schneier.