A Politician Is A Fellow Who Will Lay Down Your Life For His Country

If bankers refuse to do the job for reasonable, rather than extortionate, salaries then replace them.
Let’s call their boardroom bluff.
We ordinary citizens could do a better job for considerably less.
I’m up for it.
Are you?
( Kevin Maguire )

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
( Christopher Hitchens )

Almost 1.75 million of Britain’s poorest families have been made poorer by a ‘perfect storm’ of Coalition benefit cuts, an Oxfam report reveals.
The charity said the Government’s welfare cap and bedroom tax were to blame for much of the misery.
The worst-hit 200,000 families are losing out by £864 per year.
( Tom McTague, 22.04.2014 )

What you believe is not the problem.
What you think I should believe is the problem.
( Rose Winfold )

How a government treats the vulnerable is a guide to its decency.
This lot are indecent.
( Daily Mirror, 11.04.2014 )

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
( Aldous Huxley )

Why do so many nations hate America?
All they want to do is invade your country, drop bombs on, and fire missiles at your towns and cities, steal your resources, install puppet dictators, and if you attempt to resist or defend yourself, they will call you terrorists.
( Wilfred Soon )

The spirit in the good soul will always overcome the demon in the evil soul.
( Rose Winfold )

Chums who are teachers or have children see Gove as the Devil incarnate.
He’s like the boy at school upon whom you take pity because he is bullied, only to discover he was a git all along.
( Jim Burke, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer )

Seen in Sainsbury’s, a small yellow notice warning that ‘for the safety and security of our colleagues and customers, audio may be monitored and recorded’.
We knew they were watching.
Now they’re listening too.
Who would have thought that Big Brother would come into being among the yogurt and the biscuits?
( Peter Hitchens, 08.12.2013 )

What self-respecting male puts by £90 for a haircut?
The Prime Minister, apparently.
Last week came the news that David Cameron’s stylist, Lino Carbosiero, was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours for ‘services to hairdressing’.
Services to the Treasury, more like.
( Viv Groskop, 12.01.2014 )

Call me an old cynic but over the years a large number of donors to the Conservatives, and Labour for that matter, find themselves kneeling in front of the Queen before leaving Buckingham Palace with a title.
( Kevin Maguire )

Madness is the emergency exit.
You can just step outside and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
( Rose Winfold )

The only sensible way to live is without rules.
( Wilfred Soon )

There is no escaping the truth that Hitler’s major influence was Darwin, ‘The survival of the fittest’ being a philosophy which could not ‘give a fig’ about any species except humanity.
This has continued to spell doom for all life on Earth since it was adopted by atheists worldwide.
( David E Langford )

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
( Texas Guinan )

Our leaders proclaim war will bring peace.
But for whom.
For the women and children who die because they could not run away fast enough?
( Rose Winfold )

To learn without thinking is labour in vain.
To think without learning is desolation.
Exploring the old and deducing the new make a teacher.
( Chuang Tzu )

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
( Charles Darwin )

Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
( Isaac Asimov )

Beware the irrational, however seductive.
Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself.
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.
Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
Picture all experts as if they were mammals.
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity.
Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
Suspect your own motives, and all excuses.
Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.
( Christopher Hitchens )

Do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it has made something.
There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the ‘thing’.
( Ernest Agyemang Yeboah )

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
( Albert Einstein )

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in.
That’s the America I love.
( Mitt Romney, January 2012 )

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy.
But that could change.
( Dan Quayle, 1989 )

I am not worried about the deficit.
It is big enough to take care of itself.
( Ronald Reagan, 1980s )

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
( George W Bush, 2004 )

When the President does it, that means it’s not illegal.
( Richard Nixon, 1977 )

Now that we have reduced Syria to ruins and refugee camps through our noble benevolence, we want to do the same to Ukraine.
Western media and politicians, who do not even understand their own societies, repeatedly descend on foreign countries posing as liberators, encouraging and funding rebellions.
Too late, they find they have called up unstoppable, demonic violence, and lit fires they cannot put out.
( Peter Hitchens, 26.01.2014 )

David Cameron’s new emphasis on the importance of Christian faith in his life sits uneasily with his government’s championing of the rich and powerful.
We direct the Tory Prime Minister to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 19, Verse 24 : “And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
( Daily Mirror, 11.04.2014 )

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
( Isaac Newton )