Michelle Templet
28 quotes
"If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?"
"It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president."
"Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined."
"To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice."
"I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin."
"I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets."
"In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist."
"If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?"
"One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable."
"General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie."
"One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should."
"Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing."
"When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias."
"Patriotism is racism for the modern era."
"Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom."
"Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger."
"If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it."
"The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free."
"Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two."
"The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism."
"Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!"
"My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother."
"Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception."
"Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!"
"The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood."