"Me, I'm dishonest, and with a dishonest man you can always trust him to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you have to watch out for, because you never know when he's going to turn around and do something incredibly stupid!" -Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

Don't knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run- he hates that. -unknown

Tell your voices to SHUT UP...I can't hear mine... -unknown

I have a grip on reality--just not this particular one. -unknown

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The mind is like a mirror, it reflects what it is shown." -unknown

Silence is golden...but shouting is fun. -Anonymous

Do you know that at some random place, random people are talking to other random people about random events that randomly happened at a random time and a random place? Randomly! -unknown

"Some people are like slinkys, they're not much to look at, but you can't help but smile when they fall down the stairs..." -unknown

Destiny is not a matter of chance it's a matter of choice, it's not a thing to be waited for it's a thing to be achieved. -unknown

You can fight crime, but you can't fight crime and win. -anonymous

“…military flamethrowers don't set stuff on fire, they incinerate. As in "your muscle turns to char in under three seconds" kind of incineration.” –anonymous

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." -Smedley Darlington Butler

A tyrant shall always find a pretext for their tyranny; it is useless for the innocent to try, by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust. -anonymous

"It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals."
-Stephen Bright, human rights attorney

"The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation."
-friend of Benjamin Franklin's, Dr. Rush

"In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed."
-George Ryan, former Illinois Governor

"What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!"
-Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables

"As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively."
-Lewis Lawes, warden of Sing Sing prison in New York in the 1920s and 30s

"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
-Albert Camus, French philosopher

“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' - with his mouth.” –Mark Twain

Only the weakling seeks to prove his strength at every turn. –Thor, Marvel Publishing, Thor #130, Page 16

What we hear, we forget. What we see, we remember. What we touch, we understand. —A Fourth Grade Student visitor to Mission: Wolf

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back –Bruce Springsteen

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. –Robert Frost

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.
-H.P. Lovecraft

Humans like to light things up. -Professor Katherine Meiners

Floss only the teeth you want to keep. -anonymous

An immortal will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. -Peter S. Beagle

Mortal things are all the more beautiful than immortal things, precisely because they don’t last forever. -Peter S. Beagle

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.-Emily Dickinson

Death.
You can't escape it.
You.
Will.
Die.
- Dresden, Dead Beat, Dresden Files, Jim Butcher

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.-Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
-Emily Dickinson