Your Quote of the Day

Cass Mastern lived for a few years and in that time he learned that the world is all of one piece. He learned that the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then inject the black, numbing poison under your hide. (p.200)
R Warren, All the King's Men

Gary Gilmore when asked if he had any last words when facing the firing squad..."Let's do it."

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
JOHN BERGER, artist

He died recently, at 90 - I added that to some thread in the last few days. I've saved two useful articles on him if you have interest in the links.

I have a few links on him I intend to read up on already, thanks.

It's colder'n a well digger's ass out there. - unknown

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Author Unknown

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.
THOMAS DONAHUE, Report to the Convention from the AFL-CIO Executive Council

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. When in the thirties the wave of union organization crested over the nation, it carried to secure shores not only itself but the whole society.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech to the state convention of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Oct. 7, 1965

Love it ! Thanks Edgar

Dead men tell no tales.

This quote seems simple enough to attribute, but in fact I chased it around a bit and concluded nobody seems to know.

. . . or those who knew are dead.

I had half expected Robert Louis Stevenson, but it goes way back beyond him.

Pirates of the Caribbean
Jack Sparrow

http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99191541/m/485100021

I found a few other occurrences:

A proverb attributed to Thomas Becon (1560).

The dead can tell no tales~John Wilson, Andronicus Commenius, Act I, sc. 4 (1664).

First appeared in the U.S. in Porcupine's Works (1797).

It may have occurred earlier in another form.
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Will Durant's Age of Faith volume 4, in his Civilization series quotes p 530 of Lewis Browne's "Wisdom of Israel," NY, 1945, as attributing this line to the medieval Persian poet Sa'di, around 1250, saying this is what we should to to all quacks and charlatans:
"So I finished the rogue, notwithstanding his wails,
With stones, for dead men, as you know, tell no tales."

I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.
Martin Luther King Jr

However, between capitalism and communism, I prefer capitalism.
Without competition, there will not be quality as was learned in Russia.

It doesn't have to be capitalism or socialism (communism is not democratic). It needs to be a combination of the two, to work. Regulated capitalism. Universal health care. etc

It's one or the other; it's government owned productive capacity or privately owned.

Why can't it be like it was here in the fifties. Capitalists ran their companies, but had to follow regulations. It worked a lot better than what we have now.