pathological political quotes

[H-KQGE]

Thanks Tristan. Here's some from Zimbabwean nut-job Robert Mugabe. Remember him?

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Start as you mean to continue Bobby.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

Seriously, there should be a shake my head (SMH) smiley.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

No comment.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

Err..what?!

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Ugh. When they start using words like peace and freedom etc I start getting annoyed.. more at people believing them.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Classic. Two more from Rob.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Bobby 'gabe, bastion of truth, justice and the American, African, psychopathic way.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

Yeah! What he said! (the guy's like, 90 years old and he's still running things?)

Others/random

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

Tell that to the voters. Oh, wait..

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

George Orwell.

The amount of people who've read his work and still don't get this is incredible. They'll probably be some of the first to scream "conspiracy theorist!"

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Sung san suu kyi

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

This guy is back at the pulpit hitting the headlines again. Go away!

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Benazir Bhutto

R.I.P.

 

[l apprenti de forgeron]

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Benazir Bhutto

R.I.P.

Poor lady, murdered for have a conscience and tell the truth (also, poor sick puppet called Osama).
R.I.P.

 

[Mal7]

For serious seekers of the truth, the record as set down for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Oral History Project is a goldmine, especially if the researcher is really focused. Some years after the 1967 war, the previously quoted Harry McPherson made the following contribution to that Oral History. He was reflecting on the nature of the "service" advisers give to American Presidents.

. . . you tend to view everything in terms of whether it hurts your Administration, your President and that sort of thing; or helps. You look at almost nothing from the point of view of whether it's true or not. It's only the sort of PR sense; what effect it will have on public support of lack of support for your Administration. And that's a terrible way to get. It makes you very efficient. You become very quick. And you become good at offering advice on what your principal should do instantly. But you may miss the boat badly, because you haven't really understood and taken in what the concern of the country is.

- from Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews. Volume Three - Conflict Without End? by Alan Hart (2010 edition), page 107.

 

[H-KQGE]

Thanks Mal. There's a surprising amount of quotes on politics that aren't pathological but highlights the absurdities within "the system", or some truisms. Still too many pathological ones though.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Ouch!

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger

You can insert just about anything based on that. Knowledge... to opinion/belief. . Unity... to segregation. Self determination... to authoritarian following mindless sleepwalking. From safety to... the edge of an abyss. And so on. More from Henry...

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Well he wouldn't have any regrets, nor would he apologize. For nothing.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Yeah, the whack-a-doodle ones are in an exclusive club of spellbinders, & others who are ponerized. God bless the ten per cent.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

For the unsure, he's NOT talking about peace. And this dude was born in the 1920s, running around unchecked.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Reminiscent of that Schwarzenegger sex quote on the previous page!

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

SMH. (shake my head)

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Whether he knew it or not, he's talking about a black hole incarnate on earth, aka the USA sts capital of the world.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

That's a classic pathological political quote (ppq) right there. There's a similar quote o n the previous page, Hitler or someone. One more from Henry & this one is the ppq of the day....

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Because in the mind of psychos, there's no alternative but to eat, eat, eat, & maim kill & destroy. And NEVER have their fill. EVER.

 

[Dragon Snacks]

Got any Obama quotes?

For the record, I'm not Republican.

 

[Mal7]

Hillary Clinton, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, 19 November 2015:

This is a time for American leadership. No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS and win the generational struggle against radical jihadism. Only the United States can mobilize common action on a global scale. And that’s exactly what we need. The entire world must be part of this fight, but we must lead it. There’s been a lot of talk lately about coalitions. Everyone seems to want one. But there’s not nearly as much talk about what it actually takes to make a coalition work in the heat and pressure of an international crisis. I know how hard this is because we’ve done it before.

- http://www.cfr.org/radicalization-and-extremism/hillary-clinton-national-security-islamic-state/p37266

Wait a minute, surely this coalition you've "done before" isn't the one that went into Iraq in 2003 looking for WMD, and which completely destabilized the country, and made it into a breeding ground for terrorism and terror attacks? That one doesn't look very good on the résumé, when trying to make a case for American leadership.

 

[Glenn]

While reading an article I came across this quote, with a little preamble included:

"The Ukrainian conflict amounts to a return to the Cold War between Russia and the US and a return to the Doctrine of Containment, the basis of which was set out by George F. Kennan in his essay “The Sources of Soviet Behavior”, published in Foreign Affairs magazine in 1947, and whose main ideas are summed up in the quote:

“Soviet power is impervious to the logic of reason, but very sensitive to the logic of force”.