 Quote > FanaticsA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/04/2003 - Never edited 12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics11/01/05 :: Folder :: Philosophy & Argumentation01/28/05 :: Person :: Winston Churchill04/08/04 :: Article :: Consent & Ethics :: Yes, I'm telling you not to tell me what to do. Got a problem with that?01/12/04 :: Article :: Standard Deviants :: We may be all over the map, but we're neighbors. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous HuxleyThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.  08/26/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Inside Ronald Reagan01/12/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: America's Homegrown Terrorists11/13/03 :: Quote :: Michael PaineAn important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Napoleon BonaparteTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: BerliozTime is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.  11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston ChurchillThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 01/17/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Jon Stewart on Crossfire09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified] Any good college textbook on "oppression and how to make the masses scream for it" will tell you that the following pattern must be followed:
1. Introduce oppression as a theoretical idea. Gauge the response.
2. Make oppression optional. Depending on the opposition to the idea (you did remember to gauge the response to the theoretical idea, didn't you?), offer some worthless token that the mass [...] 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 08/11/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Fact Check  12/06/04 :: Article :: Ensis' Reproachable Tactics :: More tips on how to convince idiots and kill dialog05/20/04 :: Article :: The power to make people listen :: When you talk, does the world stand still?10/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: My Baby Boy's American Freedoms Vanish In Occupied Palestine09/04/03 :: Quote :: George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. 05/20/07 :: Quote :: Friedrich NietzscheThe most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. 02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!01/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Logic and Fallacies01/09/04 :: Quote :: George D. PrenticeMany a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. |
