George Carlin

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“The average person is stupid, and half of them are even more stupid….”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?

Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?

Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"… the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"The future will soon be a thing of the past."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Did you ever stop to thnk about all the people we kill? They're always people who tell us to live together in harmony and try to love one another: Jesus, Ghandi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John Lennon. They all said: 'Try to live together peacefully.' BAM! Right in the f--in head! Aparently we're not ready for that!"

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"If voting changed anything, it would be illegal."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"First there was rock 'n' roll, now there's just rock. What ever happened to roll?”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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"Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods."

— George Carlin (1937-2008)

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“The news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class—the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn’t want you to know something, it won’t be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.”

— George Carlin (1937-2008)