Important Quotations for Today:

1) To the United States and George W. Bush:

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." ~ Plato

"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake" ~ Sigmund Freud

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." ~ Mark Twain

2)To my Stepfather:

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." ~ Mark Twain

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King

"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." ~ Jean Rostand

To My Mother:

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them." ~ Rita Rudner

"Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does." ~ Evan Esar

"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same." ~ Pearl Buck

" Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love." ~ Diane Frolov

To My Father:

"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh." ~ Frank Herbert

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." ~ Homer

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~ Unknown

To Me:

"I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!" ~ Anonymous

"If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high my head
I think "How lucky are the dead." ~ Dorothy Parker

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." ~ Woody Allen

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck