Michel Templet

“Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.”

“When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.”

“If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.”

“We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken the law.”

“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.”

“The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.”

“I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.”

“Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.”

“The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.”

“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.”

“There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom.”

“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!”

“Love is my philosophy, and my philosophy is love.”

“The greatest courage is always quiet.”

“True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.”

“Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.”

“Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.”

“Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.”

“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.”

“If you vote for Barack Obama in 2012, you'll be doing exactly what the Republicans want you to do.”

“It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.”

“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!”

“Can I change the world? Only my piece of it.”

“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?”

“Barack Obama is an even worse president than George W. Bush, because an evil bastard who knows what he's doing is far more dangerous than an evil bastard who doesn't have a clue.”

“Anyone who (dis)likes G. W. Bush, but (dis)likes B. H. Obama, is either completely delusional or a complete idiot.”

“On 11 September 2001, a bunch of Saudis killed almost 3000 US civilians, which led to the construction of a monument in New York City. My question is: Are we also going to build monuments in Kabul, Baghdad, and Tripoli to commemorate the thousands of civilians the US has killed since then? By the way, I should mention that neither Kabul, Baghdad, nor Tripoli is in Saudi Arabia; supposedly, the Saudis are our “friends”, and if you'll forgive the old cliché, with friends like these, who needs enemies?”

“David Vitter is a perfect case-study to demonstrate that Louisiana voters lack brains.”

“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten people? If you think World War II was justified, your answer should be yes.”

“Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.”

“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?”

“It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal.”

“Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.”

“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.”

“I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.”

“We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances, is treason such a bad thing?”

“I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.”

“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.”

“Patriotism is racism for the modern era.”

“The question deserves to be asked: Is hating one's nation really such a bad thing? Or perhaps more importantly, after the crimes our government has committed, what moral self-respecting person can truly love this nation?”

“The most important lesson I have ever learned is that I haven't learned anything.”

“Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing.”

“The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.”

“With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.”

“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?”

“The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.”

“It requires an act of extreme arrogance to think that we can - through God or science - learn even the most fundamental secrets of the universe. To say as much claims that we are somehow greater than the universe in which we live, its masters, when in fact it is master of us.”

“The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.”

“The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce.”

“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.”