"I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas."
- Charles Bukowski
When I was a child, my father was abusive—physically and mentally. By the age of ten, I had already accomplished everything he tried to achieve in his life. I haven’t spoken to him in nearly 30 years. He went on to have seven children and now has four grandchildren—and none of them want anything to do with him.
Growing up, I promised myself: “I will never treat my children that way.” Now that I’m a parent, I’m amazed he ever could have behaved like that—he had so many wonderful kids. It’s simply heartbreaking.
Today, I choose presence. I choose love. I choose to break the cycle. Because refusing to inherit someone else’s pain is itself an act of love.
— Macaulay Culkin
Bob Marley once said:
I was rejected because I was poor and mixed-race. I was neither from here nor from there.
But reggae told me: sing, even if it hurts.
They shot me because I wanted peace… and even with wounds still open, I got on stage.
Because my voice was not only mine, it belonged to the people.
Music is not glory, it is a mission.
And I chose to use it to heal, to unite, to love.
(If your voice can lift others, do not remain silent.
Even if your body trembles, sing louder.)
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
_Khalil Gibran
Captain Obvious™️
TheFungi669
Marjorie Greene: “Waving the Confederate flag doesn’t make me a racist.”
Me: “Of course not. Being a racist makes you wave the Confederate flag.”
Aldous Huxley once said, "The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.".
"You will never find Justice in a world where criminals make the rules." --Bob Marley
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” ~ Vonnegut
"I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools." – Ray Bradbury
Oscar Wilde: "Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
Explanation: Wilde celebrates rebellion as the seed of evolution—intellectual, moral, and social.
Theme: Rebellion, evolution, non-conformity.
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." --Steven Wright
Jean de La Fontaine
“All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.”
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." --Angela Davis
I would never kill an animal. I'm more of a people person.
--falsely attributed to Adolph Hitler
“What the modern world has striven after with all its strength, even when it has claimed in its own way to pursue science, is really nothing other than the development of industry and machinery; and in thus seeking to dominate matter and bend it to their service, men have only succeeded, as we said at the beginning of this book, in becoming its slaves.
Not only have they limited their intellectual ambition—if such a term can still be used in the present state of things—to inventing and constructing machines, but they have ended by becoming in fact machines themselves.”
— Rene Guenon, The Crisis of the Modern World
“When truth is inconvenient power will label it as conspiracy.” – Noam Chomsky
When a woman becomes aware of her beauty, it starts to fade.
-- anonymous
A reporter once asked A.J. Muste, a Dutch-born American clergyman and pacifist who protested against the Vietnam War, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?"
Muste replied softly, "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me."
