“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X
@edgarblythe,
"... Because they control the minds of the masses.”
Surely, Malcolm was exaggerating, Ed. The razor sharp minds of Americans, controlled by the media - not possible, is it?
@edgarblythe,
"Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time." - Demetri Martin.
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
- Benjamin Franklin
@vonny,
What did he recommend for the night time?
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”
― Dolly Parton
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children.
The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
River Phoenix
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Leon Uris
“One can't believe impossible things,” said Alice. “I daresay you haven't had much practice,” said the Queen.”When I was your age, I always did it for half~an~hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ~Lewis Carroll
This is more a word of the day, but it works a quote:
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” -- Orwell, 1984
My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet. – Edith Wharton
@Kolyo,
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” -- Orwell, 1984
That's the daily bread for a huge number of Americans, Kolyo. Certainly for you.
Quote:This is more a word of the day, but it works a quote:
These little doohickies, "..." mean a quote.
@JTT,
Actually, I don't engage in doublethink. I engage in what you might call "zero-think" (have fun with that one
). In zero-think, you don't simultaneously hold two contradictory beliefs. Instead, when confronted with two conflicting narratives, you simply ignore both and think about other things. Instead of accepting contradictory stories, you accept nothing.
@Kolyo,
Quote:Actually, I don't engage in doublethink.
Now you're lying, Kolyo. Y'all engage in doublethink a great deal. But you have to to keep up the lies that prop up the facade that is the USA.
Quote:I engage in what you might call "zero-think"
Tell me something I don't know. I just read some of your takes on language.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” ~Ogden Nash
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
