It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
--Saul Bellow
"The premise for empathy has to be equal humanity." -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterward if people step on him.”
― Immanuel Kant
'Well done' is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin
As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.
--Saul Bellow
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
--William S. Burroughs
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
--H.L. Mencken
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
--H.L. Mencken
@coluber2001,
coluber2001 wrote:
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
--H.L. Mencken
How about a succession of morons?
"Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die." -Attr. to John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota
Democracy don't rule the world, you'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence...[Bob Dylan]
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
--George Orwell, 1984
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
― Albert Ellis
"I struggle in the dark with the enormity of my soul, trying desperately to be a great rememberer redeeming life from darkness…"
― Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
- Jane Austen
You can't fart without there being a video instantly on social media.
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a stand still in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and a passion unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily ressurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Il Profeta
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.”
― Albert Ellis
Janis Ian
"Who knows why we were taught to fear the witches, and not those who burned them alive."
* Please keep in mind that men were also burned as witches. It's not only about "the patriarchy" - that's too simple an answer.
Also, traditionally witches were not burned; they were hanged. I'm sure that made them feel better about it...
