Harold Titus > Harold's Quotes

“You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.”
― W.C. Fields

“In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.”
― Paul Krugman

“Demagogues thrive in dim light.”
― Garrison Keillor

“It is human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.”
― Naomi Wolf

“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times: Memoirs

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“External vigilance is the price of liberty.”
― Wendell Phillips

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.”
― Bill Moyers

“There is a corner in every human heart made to be filled with hatred, fear, and violence. It is our common curse.”
― William Rivers Pitt

“It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.”
― Henry Giroux

“Why are record numbers of Americans on food stamps? Because record numbers of Americans are in poverty. Why are people falling through the cracks? Because there are cracks to fall through.”
― Bill Moyers

“In whose delusional mind is democracy made better by letting wealthier people control more of it?”
― Jon Stewart

“A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.”
― Bob Edwards