Thursday, January 30, 2003

 

Words From Frank Zappa

The following was sent in by Brahma's World group member, Deno and we thank him for this timely quote These words have never been more true....even today, over two decades later.

"When political leaders do not demonstrate honesty, when people lie constantly in the media--everybody gets used to 'The Big Lie' as a way of life. At that point, honesty becomes a quaintly outmoded concept--nobody wants to be honest anymore, because if they are, they might finish last.
I would say that today,dishonesty is the rule, and honesty is the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
I don't think we have an honest president. I don't think that he is surrounded by honest people. I don't believe that most of the people in the Congress or in the Senate are honest. I don't think most people that head up businesses are honest. We have to let them get away with it because we're not honest enough to face up to the fact that we are 'owned and operated' by a bunch of really bad people."

-Frank Zappa, from a CNN interview with Sandy Freeman, October 31, 1981

posted by ~Brahma 1:21 AM