Notable quotes

[SteveDallas]

The rats may be deserting a sinking ship, but it's still sinking.

(Dunno who said it.)

[TheMercenary]

'Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead'

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870)

[classicman]

'Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?'
Thomas Jefferson

[dar512]

"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit."

[MoonFreckle]

"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door"

[Sheldonrs]

I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming.
Homer Simpson

[Sheldonrs]

Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head.
Graffiti

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
Anita Bryant

As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social.
Joseph Francis

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen

Closets are for clothes.
Bumper sticker

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.
Lynn Lavne

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.
Author Unknown

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James Baldwin

For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian.
Mabel Maney

Gay and lesbian people fall in love. We settle down. We commit our lives to one another. We raise our children. We protect them. We try to be good citizens.
California Sen. Sheila Kuehl
After California Senate approved gay marriage bill AB849

Gay people ... were the first to find me, and they get everything, they're so sharp. I'll look out in the audience and I see three or four gay guys right in the front row, or a couple of lesbians, I know it's gonna be a good show.
Joan Rivers
To Denver's Out Front

Gay people, well, gay people are EVIL, evil right down to their cold black hearts which pump not blood like yours or mine, but rather a thick, vomitous oil that oozes through their rotten veins and clots in their pea-sized brains which becomes the cause of their Nazi-esque patterns of violent behavior. Do you understand?
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
From South Park, spoken by Mr Garrison

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.
Fran Lebowitz

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer

Homophobia is a social disease.
Bumper sticker

Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors.
Eldridge Cleaver
"Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968

Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
Sam Austin

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients."
Ernest van den Haag, psychotherapist

I am the love that dare not speak its name.
Lord Alfred Douglas
From poem Two Loves

I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress?"
Karen Ripley

I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public.
T-shirt
Worn by Chicago Bulls transvestite Dennis Rodman during a network-TV interview

I get sick of listening to straight people complain about, "Well, hey, we don't have a heterosexual-pride day, why do you need a gay-pride day?" I remember when I was a kid I'd always ask my mom: "Why don't we have a Kid's Day? We have a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but why don't we have a Kid's Day?" My mom would always say, "Every day is Kid's Day." To all those heterosexuals that bitch about gay pride, I say the same thing: Every day is heterosexual-pride day! Can't you people enjoy your banquet and not piss on those of us enjoying our crumbs over here in the corner?
Rob Nash

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
Elton John
Accepting Distinguished Achievement Award from Elizabeth Taylor at Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's 25th anniversary blowout

I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming.
Homer Simpson

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.
Diamanda Galas

I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
Charles Pierce
1980

If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.
Harry Benjamin

If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them!
Author unknown
As seen on a button

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.
Anita Bryant

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer."
Robin Tyler

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.
Bert R. Sugar

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic."
Shelly Roberts

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.
Robin Tyler

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?
Author Unknown

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
Author Unknown

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
Paul Newman

I'm not a lesbian but my girlfriend is.
Bumper sticker

I'm not gay but my boyfriend is.
Bumper sticker

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1978

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass?
Letter to Playboy magazine, February 1987

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
Francis Maude

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Daphne Fielding
The Duchess of Jermyn Street

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman

It's hard enough to be taken seriously in the struggle for gay rights without having a bunch of straight girls running around kissing each other to get the attention of boys and videocameras.
M. Robin D'Antan
2002

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?"
George Michael
To Britain's Big Issue magazine

Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.
Judy Carte

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Martina Navratilova

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
Nora Ephron
Heartburn, 1983

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Hart Crane

Let's get one thing straight, I'm not.
Bumper sticker

[classicman]

You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.




Non-Lincoln "You Cannot" Quotation
These sentiments were created by the Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, who lectured around the United States about industrial relations at the turn of the twentieth century. There is no evidence linking them to Lincoln as the author.

At one time President Ronald Reagan used them in a speech, wrongly attributing them to Lincoln. Those who are familiar with Lincoln's writings, recognize that these statements do not reflect Lincoln's "voice," nor can they be found in any authentic Lincoln literature.

I think the message is excellent in theory, whoever they are from.

[ZenGum]

but, but .... YES WE CAN!

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

but, but .... YES WE CAN!

Well, we could...if people would stop bitchin'! :p

[DanaC]

You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.

Class hatred is always ascribed to the lower class in that equation. The ones at the top are never blamed for their part. What they do is simply seen as right and proper. And the ones at the bottom are only a problem when they refuse to accept that status quo.

[DanaC]

The land, the land, 'twas God who made the land,
The land, the land, the ground on which we stand,
Why should we be beggars with the ballot in our hand?

And this, my favourite Billy Bragg song:

There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hands of a worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a Union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses' way, sir

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a Union

Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackies out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
There is power in a Union

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
There is power in a Union.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Class hatred is always ascribed to the lower class in that equation. The ones at the top are never blamed for their part. What they do is simply seen as right and proper. And the ones at the bottom are only a problem when they refuse to accept that status quo.

There was no blame implied nor intended. I think you are taking the quote out of context.

[DanaC]

I don't think I am. Not when put with the rest of the quote:

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men...
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer...
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich...

It seems very clear to me what side of the argument this quote comes from and what it is arguing against.

[DanaC]