Smart Mouths 70

Collected by Staff of Magellan's Log

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed
–Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953.

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.
–George W. Bush, May 19, 2003.

The trouble with political jokes is that very often they get elected.
–Will Rogers.

For those of us who are not happy with George W. Bush, we may as well recognize that living with him in the Oval Office is like being married to a mate who always says exactly what you know in advance he or she is going to say, which helps to account for why more than half of America now appears to love him.
–Norman Mailer.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
–George Orwell.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
–George Bernard Shaw.

All translation is to some extent misrepresentation.
–Louise Ady Huish.

The way to survive psychically is to find people to love. But in order to feel safe enough with other people, most of us feel we have to control them. If you fear losing somebody who you think you need, you try to enslave or addict them.
–Adam Phillips.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
–Dorothy Parker.