“I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?”
― Bill Hicks
@edgarblythe,
It's because we allowed religion to be defined legally by the fundamentalists that we lack of freedom of religion.
“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
― Noam Chomsky
“That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”
― Noam Chomsky
"I am directing the Texas Education Agency to investigate any criminal activity in our public schools involving the availability of pornography."
--Governor Greg Abbott of Texas
"Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas calls for a criminal investigation into availability of pornographic content in public schools."
What he determines as pornographic is another question. Now he'll have to appoint censors to comb the libraries of schools for subversive material. He's opening another can of worms common in authoritarian regimes.
I'm pretty sure nothing bad can come from banning books. Arresting "subversive" Librarians has got to be a number one priority in Texas.
@coluber2001,
Abbot's a peach - after it rotted off of the pit.
"What the hell are you people doing in an art gallery, anyway? If you’re looking for art, you won’t find it here. You might as well hope to find religion in a church, health in a pill bottle, youth in a jar of cosmetics or true love in a brothel."
--Mike Brown
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould
“And empty words are evil.”
― Homer, The Odyssey
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Workingmen of all countries unite!”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
“If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
James Baldwin
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." Attr. to Oscar Wilde
“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and no bottom. Everything could easily have happened before, or might have happened afterwards. You can read any of the conversations just as pleasurably backwards, for you don't miss the point of the gags. Every sentence is a gag, but taken together they make no point. You can also stop in the middle of a sentence--the first half still makes sense enough to live by itself, or at least seems to. The whole work has the character of a worm cut in half, that can grow a new head or a new tail as required.”
― C.G. Jung, The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature
“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.”
― Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
“I Remember Conservatism”: “To be a conservative today, you have to oppose much of what the Republican Party has come to stand for.”'
--David Brooks
“We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
