Your Quote of the Day

“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

“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

"The big lie, which Mr. Trump told and which lots of other people told, the big lie that he won the election, this is identical to the big lie of American history. The big lie of American History is that black people are not human beings. And the big lie of American History is what makes the big lie of Mr Trump possible. What he is saying is that I would have won if you hadn't counted all those fraudulent ballots, which is really saying I would have won the election if you hadn't counted those black people. I would have won the election if you only counted white people. Which is true."
-- Timothy Snyder

“Trotsky once wrote: "How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?" Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.”
― Alan Woods, What Is Marxism?

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

“Jesus is Santa Claus for adults.”
Christopher Hutchins

Leonard told Jools Holland of the BBC: “Los Angeles is a terrific place to live… it's right on the edge of destruction. The ground itself is trembling. The landscape is about to blow apart. The social fabric is about to tear, and many novelists have documented the fragmentation of the psyche. So it's a place right at the edge of things where everything is about to fall apart, and it's a very nourishing place for that reason.”
Leonard Cohen

Jools Holland is a national institution. He started out as z keyboard player for Squeeze, then he presented cutting edge music show The Tube.

Later on he got a regular programme called Later with Jools Holland where he invited an electic bunch of musicians to perform.

That's it, the musicians are from all different genres, but they are all good, and there will always be something I like.

On New Year's Eve he has a Hootenanny which is an extended version of Later, but with more musicians and a host of celebrity guests.

"Fascism is an ideology that is centered on power, loyalty, and fear of the other."
--Jason Stanley

“What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.
Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.
This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. ”
― Inga Muscio, ****: A Declaration of Independence

That's a pretty cool story.

"They kept spitting out the false narrative about a stolen election and how it was 'our duty' to stand up to tyranny," Palmer wrote. "Little did I realize that they were the tyrannical ones, desperate to hold onto power at any cost, even by creating the chaos they knew would happen with such rhetoric."
--Robert Palmer--(He has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars by a federal judge for his role in the [Jan. 6] riot.)

I have a relative who passionately believes in Trump and the stolen election story. He no longer acknowledges me.

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

I love this and live by it.

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

Jack Handey

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo

There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it."
--Dr. Richard Beeman