@edgarblythe,
bloody ruffian, I say, to take away poor little Willy Dignam.
That series of quotes came from Joyce's Ulysses. Was curious if anybody would join in.
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
~Rod Serling, closing narration of the Twilight Zone, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (1960)
The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does.
Terence Mckenna
"I say he’s a projector. He’s saying, Joe Biden is the worst president? He knows he was. He’s saying we’re crazy? He knows he is," she added. "He says somebody’s crooked. He knows he is. So he’s projector, an impostor. And we just have to win."
--Nancy Pelosi
The Universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
--attributed to Neil deGrass Tyson
"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." - Turkish proverb.
“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”
Federico García Lorca
“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.”
~John Lennon
Nothing has been learned from the past. Just new bodies, new waste, new hell. Always a new excuse for more war.
~ Charles Bukowski
Local Communist
@unos_dos_trey
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I will say the Democratic Party does a wonderful job pushing a lot of yall to the right as you insist they can be pushed left.
"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." -Zora Neale Hurston
"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed."
Simone de Beauvoir
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.
--William S. Burroughs
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The people who lie to themselves and listen to their own lie come to a point that they cannot distinguish the truth within them, or around them, and so lose all respect for themselves and for others. And having no respect for anyone or anything they cease to love.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky - ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
"What have future generations ever done for us?" --Groucho Marx
"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things.
Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news.
Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up."
~George Carlin
"We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” - June Wandrey
“An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward, and he looks up at me trustingly asking, “How am I doing, nurse?” I just kiss his forehead and say, “You are doing just fine soldier.” He smiles sweetly and says, “I was just checking,” then he dies. We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” - June Wandrey
June Wandrey Mann (1920–2005) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from Wautoma, Wisconsin. She was the author of Bedpan Commando, an account of her military service in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany from 1942 to 1946, during which she was awarded eight battle stars.
Source:
American Military History
(From Indiana Spirit of '45)
"People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels."
Charles Fort
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
