"There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days."
--Neil Gaiman
“How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.” – From Black Hawk, Sauk
"She was not fragile like a flower; she was fragile like a bomb." -Attr. to Frida Kahlo
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” – Buddha
“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” – Stephen Richards
“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” – Miranda Kerr
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
-Albert Einstein.
“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”
-Albert Einstein.
Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
- Bob Dylan
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border."
--Donald Trump
“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks
@edgarblythe,
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
@edgarblythe,
...and that is the existential problem any sensible human soul will have to face throughout his life!
“The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.”
― Henry Miller
"Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary ‘peaks of progress,’ short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. We must acknowledge it, not as a sign of submission, but as an ultimate act of defiance."
--- Derrick Bell, "Faces at the Bottom of the Well", p. 12, 1992.
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Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was the first tenured African-American Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and is largely credited as one of the originators of critical race theory (CRT). He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death. He was also a dean of the University of Oregon School of Law.
Julian Assange: "Populations dont like wars...and have to be fooled into war"
"Vladimir Putin Says Russia Has 'No Ill Intentions,' Pleads for No More Sanctions."
Nice doublespeak. And authoritarians always play the victim.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
"If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree."
African Proverb
“moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.”
― Nicholas Kristof
“The risks in antiques fraud are relative. Other criminals risk the absolute. You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the "Come and get me, copper!" sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring him. No, we subtle-mongers do it with the smile, the promise, the hint. And we have one great ally: greed. And make no mistake. Greed is everywhere, like weather.”
― Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game
