"My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard." -David Allen. Happy International Breastfeeding Week!
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein
It sounds like Einstein was having something of a Yogi Berra moment.
"Good is better than evil, because it's nicer."
- Popeye
@edgarblythe,
"We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology."
--E. O. Wilson
Quote:I think part of it is that we have the luxury of being that way. There are various safety nets for our idiocy.
Author Micheal Lewis, responding to the question from Sean Illing of Vox: "We live in a society that is very good at creating knowledge and very bad at applying it. Why is that"?
@thack45,
“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, 1972
@coluber2001,
"Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner."
-- E. O. Wilson
Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out, and they tell you that things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen, because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you've got more wages and can afford to buy more of these new and useless goods. And even if it seemed to you that you'd never had so much - that is only the slogan of those who have that much more than you. Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and tell you there's no more inequality worth speaking of, no more reason for fighting. If you believe them, they will be completely in charge in their shining homes and granite banks, from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them freedom. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them, they will send you out to protect their wealth, in war - whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can, with the flick of a finger, tear a million of you to pieces.
Marat/Sade
John Lennon
THE WORD.
It sort of dawned on me that love was the answer, when I was younger, on the Rubber Soul album. My first expression of it was a song called ‘The Word’. The word is ‘love’. ‘In the good and the bad books that I have read,’ whatever, wherever, the word is ‘love’
"I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older."
---- Kris Kristofferson
... we have to choose because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.
-- Liz Cheney
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
- Walt Kelly
'I learn to give, not because I have much but because I know exactly how it feels to have nothing.'
- Manny Pacquiao
“No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.”
— Timothy Snyder
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." -Terry Pratchett from "I Shall Wear Midnight"
“I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man left alive.”
Said to be the last words of Geronimo.
"It shouldn't have to happen to you for it to matter to you."
- unknown author
"We'd get in the car. I'd look over at John and say, 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' And just laugh - because it was only him." - Ringo
