Politics After 50: Poor Man's High

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
~ Dante Alighieri

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
~ Blaise Pascal

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Plato 429-347 B.C.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
~ Arab Proverb

Why, madame, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
~ Yehuda Bauer

We become absorbed with our abstract arguments, our ideological disputes, our contests for power. And in this Tower of Babel, we lose the sound of God's voice.
~ Barack Obama

If you're idealistic, you have a moral obligation to be pragmatic.
~ Barney Frank

Facts have a well-known liberal bias.
~ Stephen Colbert

I always thought Libertarians were Republicans that smoke dope.
~ Gary Amstutz

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
~ Mark Twain