I agree with all three of these

“If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feeling. Now Marx is not inspired by kindly feeling. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat, but what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois. And it was because of that negative element, because of that hate element that his philosophy produced disaster. A philosophy that wishes to do good must be one inspired by kindly feeling and not by unkindly feeling.”

A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952).

"The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history…the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves."

H.L. Mencken. 

Cenk Uygur

@cenkuygur

I’m now positive it’s Israel’s supporters that are driving antisemitism - on purpose. They lose a debate on whether the U.S. should spend $300 billion on a different country or if we should fight their wars for them. Only debate they can win is if you should hate Jewish people.

Cenk Uygur, presenter of the American left of centre online political programme The Young Turks.