“I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Greatest My Own Story
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
― Henry Miller
@edgarblythe,
Philosophers continue to search for the answer, but none is forthcoming.
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
― Abbie Hoffman
“Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Prince Philip
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Prince Charles
On Epstein being a sex offender.
Was I right in having him as a friend? At the time, bearing in mind this was some years before he was accused of being a sex offender.
I don’t think there was anything wrong then, the problem was the fact that once he had been convicted.
Prince Andrew
"Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous."
Don't know the source.
@edgarblythe,
"Ask not, what the country can do for you."
“This campaign was never just about electing a president of the United States—as enormously important as that was. This campaign was about transforming America. It was about the understanding that real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up. It takes place when ordinary people, by the millions, are prepared to stand up and fight for justice.”
― Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
“You see, to me it seems as though the artists, the scientists, the philosophers were grinding lenses. It’s all a grand preparation for something that never comes off. Someday the lens is going to be perfect and then we’re all going to see clearly, see what a staggering, beautiful world it is…”
― Henry Miller
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins
@coluber2001,
At least, thinking proves we're still amongst the living.
"Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be." -David Graham Phillips, 1867-1911
“An old Russian proverb . . . "Where hangs the smoke of hate burns a fiercer fire called fear."
The trick . . . was to keep that fire alive, but to know at the same time it might consume you also. Then the trick was to make the fear invisible in the smokes of hatred. Having accomplished that, you would own men's souls and your power would be absolute, so long as you never allowed men to see that their hate was but fear, and so long as you, afraid, knowing it, hence more shrewd and cautious than the rest, did not become a corpse at the hands of the hating fearful.
There, in a nutshell, was the recipe for dictatorship. Over the proletariat. Over the godly believers. Over the heathen. Over all men, even those who imagined they were free and yet could be made to hate.
Frighten; then furnish the whipping boys. Then seize.”
― Philip Wylie, The Answer: A Fable for Our Times
“These people who expect to be saints in heaven, though they were not on Earth, have ignored the wisdom of the founders of the great religions. This wisdom is that the kingdom of heaven is within you and that you do not go to heaven unless you are already in it. The magic must be wrought by you and you alone. God has no fairy wand to tap the pig and turn it into a swan.
People ignore this. And those who believe in sinners burning in hell are, perhaps, not so much concerned with going to heaven as with being sure that sinners-–others-–roast forever in the flames.”
― phillip jose farmer
@edgarblythe,
I just ignore the fears and rewards of religion. The christian god came too late in human history. Religion has not impacted any race or culture in any way discernible.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink."
Viv Stanshall as Sir Henry Rawlinson.
If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck
I'd dive to the bottom and never come up -
song "Rye Whiskey"
“Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
Grief, with a glass that ran;
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;
Summer, with flowers that fell;
Remembrance, fallen from heaven,
And madness risen from hell;
Strength without hands to smite;
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon
