Would you believe?

One’s take on the following sayings probably shows how and what they think. If they have not thought about all these sayings, then make up a sub-list as a homework assignment.

The noble savage

One man’s criminal (or terrorist) is another man’s freedom fighter

Address the underlying cause

Diplomacy will work if given enough time

Sympathy for the underdog

Only white people can be racists

Good intentions count

Ignorance is bliss

Take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes…Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more… (from the Matrix)

The Pied Piper

United Nations Charter Preamble

All men, tribes, and nations are not morally equal

Let ‘em kill them all (or themselves)

The United States cannot or will not tolerate a long war

They all look alike

The fourth estate

Pocket book issues

Kill the goose that lays the golden egg

The golden rule

Original sin

One god

War is an extension of politics by another means

Foreigners are dirty

Corruption is normal

Criminality is part of the social fabric

The world is a finite place

The end justifies the means

Men and women are equal

True peace

Rule of law

Environmentalism

Lowest common denominator

Educated fools

Intellectual

Elite

Gradual evolution

Cataclysmic evolution

Repeating it often enough makes it true

Atomic energy

Inherited wealth

Benign neglect

Carbon based fuels

Plagues

Translating words is easier than translating meanings

Males cause most of the world’s problems

Nation building works

The tribes are back

The pen is mightier than the sword

Democracy

Republic

Hope as a policy

Hate as a policy

Marriage is between a man and a woman

Family is the building block of society

Everyone wakes up in the morning wanting to do a good job

Evil

Money is the root of all evil. Sex is the root of all evil. Money and sex are the roots of all evil.

Power corrupts

Divine inspiration

History is what is written

They all think alike

What you think about deceit depends of where you are from

Don’t trust anyone over thirty

East vs. West

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Universal truths

Five wise blind men describing an elephant that has wandered into a village of blind people

Do-gooder

Wars are both large and small

The truth will set you free

End of the world as we know it

Double standard. Double standards applied

Agenda oriented reporting

Capabilities and intents are different

The times they are a changing