Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Print this Page [51-75] of 357Posts from Dick, fort worthDick, fort worth Previous 25 Next 25 1Reply dick, fort worth 10/5/11 re: Thomas Paine quote P.S. No religion, neither Christianity nor other, introduced morality. Before any religion humans had to establish rules of conduct in order to keep from killing each other. Morality and ethics came BEFORE any religion. 1Reply dick, fort worth 10/5/11 re: Thomas Paine quote Anyone who has read anything of reason knows the men who fashioned the Constitution DELIBERATELY omitted any mention of God in order to keep religion and government SEPARATED. And Christianity was beginning to form in just a few years after the death of the man called Jesus. It was only in 325 A.D. that the emperor Constantine ruled that Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire. It was only in 381 at the Council of Constantinople that the so-called holy spirit was added. Mithraism was a close contender in the competition for Rome's selection. There was and is no mention of a Trinity in the Bible either. Reply dick, fort worth 9/15/11 re: William S. Cohen quote Trash talk from a profiteer. 1 Reply dick, Fort Worth 9/15/11 re: Helen Keller quote Knowing the causes for which Helen Keller dedicated her llife and the swinish treatment she received gives added meaning to her statement. Her courage and brilliance in fighting for the blind and the powerless, for rights of women, for suffrage, for better workiing conditions and pay for women prove the conclusions of the last two sentences. 11Reply dick, fort worth 9/14/11 re: Hermann Goering quote A small gang of super-religious fanatics makes our intelligence(?) agencies as obviously inept as they are. Or it wouldn't be surprising if the 9-11 attacks were anticipated and allowed in order to create the kind of ignorant emotions Goering describes. Instead of an international police effort to catch the criminals, our empire building leaders were able to start yet another war. George Orwell explained it all in "1984." With our 800 to 1000 military bases in over 100 countries it is certain we shall have perpetual war from this time on. War makes it easy for the tiny few at the top to take everything away from the people. Why has this not been recognized?? Does anyone really think Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney are any more humanitarian than the Nazis were? Reply dick, fort worth 8/24/11 re: Hosea Ballou quote A good quote from a good Universalist minister. 12Reply dick, fort worth 8/19/11 re: Robert G. Ingersoll quote One of the brightest and best minds of any time. Reply dick, fort worth 8/19/11 re: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon quote Amen. Reply dick, fort worth 8/19/11 re: Lenny Bruce quote A quote meaning little but appealing to a vaiety of opinions. 11Reply dick, fort worth 8/9/11 re: Phelps Adams quote Phelps' "ignorance cover(s) the whole earth like a blanket and there (is) hardly a hole in it anywhere." 6Reply dick, fort worth 8/9/11 re: J. Tucker Alford quote Nothing but sick excuses for what is really hate, selfishness and ignorance. 1Reply dick, fort worth 8/9/11 re: Cal Thomas quote I would bet that all those who can actually swallow the thinking (?) of Cal Thomas also call themselves 'Christian." If so, what gross cognitive dissonance. 1Reply dick, fort worth 8/4/11 re: Marcus Tullius Cicero quote Such statements as these without further elaboration are a waste of time. Another great man of antiquity, an Athenian named Solon literally saved the life of his city from revolution by devaluating its currency, reducing all personal debts (although he himself was a creditor), ending imprisonment for debt, and instituting a graduated income tax which made the rich pay at a rate twelve times that of the poor. As a result Athens became stronger and more democratic. 1Reply dick, fort worth 8/4/11 re: Jonathan H. Adler quote It's not the proliferation of laws that is the problem, but the intent. Our drug laws are as seriously poor as the really stupid laws barring hemp use. But what would we do if we didn't have laws to enforce food and drug safety, minimum wages, safe working conditions, etc, etc?? Rely on the forces of capitalism? Ha! 1Reply dick, fort worth 8/4/11 re: Henry David Thoreau quote Law may not make humans feel and act more justly in countries where law has at least exercised some measure of control as has the United States and we all benefit greatly from that, but we should be aware that there will always be those who violate the law for personal gain. Sadly, in the U.S., these violators have gained control of the Supreme Court and our laws are being diminished on a regular basis. And now that these people control all three branches of government and the mainstream media we should be cognizant of the danger. We may soon have very unjust laws. Reply dick, fort worth 8/3/11 re: Charles T. Sprading quote Some people have difficulty giving any statement logical thought if anything in it can be construed to involve economic or political ideas for their solidified prejudice against concerns of the welfare of the people. Reply dick, fort worth 8/2/11 re: Michel de Montaigne quote Thank you, Waffler, for another sensible evaluation. 1Reply dick, fort worth 8/2/11 re: Max Stirner quote There is some truth in this statement but it can't stand alone without qualification. Reply dick, fort worth 8/2/11 re: Emma Goldman quote It would help to know something about Emma Goldman. She grew up in the era when poor people in cities worked in sweatshops and in dangerous environments, efforts to make even a barely liveable wage were put down by ruthless police, and people who spoke out about the unbearable conditions were arrested, often beaten, and even deported as she was. The law for those brave and articulate who spoke out in that tlme had reason to feel as she did. While there must be law and authority it is too often used to instigate wars for profit (our own lawmakers have begun what will now be perpetual war) and has never justified capital punishment. 1Reply dick, fort worth 7/27/11 re: New York Times quote Waffler is right as usual. 1 Reply dick, fort worth 7/26/11 re: Robert E. Lee quote I think there's not a chance in hell Lee made this statement. It is completely unlike his writing style and totally foreign to everything he wrote after his surrender. 1Reply dick, fort worth 7/26/11 re: New York Times quote Waffler is right as usual. 1Reply dick, fort worth 7/20/11 re: Tench Coxe quote whose mililtia? where the militia? the public is going to overawe our hundreds of thousand servicemen and women??? what century are you living in? Reply dick, fort worth 7/19/11 re: Justice Hugo L. Black quote A statement of any kind is not responsible for the person who makes it. It is prejudice and lack of good sense to judge a statement by the person making it. Truth can stand alone regardless of the speaker. And disregarding this quotation, Justice Black was one of the best. 1Reply dick, Fort Worth 7/8/11 re: Thomas Sowell quote Income and wealth have long been "redistributed" in this country. The rich and powerful accomplished this by stealing all the gain from the increase in productivity over the last 50 years. Robin Hood's ass. It's been rob the poor, reward the rich throughout history. And it's been made possible through the ignorance and acceptance of complete brainwashing by the majority of responders such as are represented here. Previous 25 Next 25 SaveOk2 Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print