@izzythepush,
I seldom read about people like him, but I read today that he said people should be killed for being born black. No sympathy.
@edgarblythe,
He was a vile creature, full of bigotry and hate.
The world is well rid.
Bertrand Russell
“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions in philosophy ... I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions .... I do not claim the kind of truth which theologians claim for their creeds. I claim only, at best, that the opinion expressed was a sensible one to hold at the time when it was expressed.“
"People waste all their time. They’re alive for just so long, and they waste their time on recriminations and retributions and all such nonsense."
- Jack Kerouac, Orpheus Emerged
"If you don't have a problem with masked law enforcement, you are the problem." --janisian
“Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.”
— G.K. Chesterton
"To be alive at all is to have scars." --John Steinbeck
"Trump is there to tell you that democracy is a joke. Trump is there to tell you that the rules don't apply to everyone equally;
They don't apply to him."
--Timothy Snyder
It's like our visit to the moon, or to that other star.
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Leonard Cohen
"Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I tell my students, who believe passionately in explaining the work they’re sharing, “You know, when you’re dead, you can’t go around explaining this thing—it has to be right there on the page.” —Louise Glück
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.-- Mark Twain .
Not sure which King this is
The way to honor King: Don’t just quote #MLK. Work to eradicate racism, poverty, and militarism. That’s on the path to true peace, which, as my father said, “is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
“While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.”
–George Orwell
"The life of a mythology derives from the vitality of its symbols as metaphors delivering, not simply the idea, but a sense of actual participation in a realization of transcendence, infinity, and abundance ... Indeed, the first and most essential service of a mythology is this one, of opening the mind and heart to the utter wonder of all being. And the second service, then is cosmological: of representing the universe and the whole spectacle of nature, both as known to the mind and as beheld by the eye, as an epiphany of such kind that when lightning flashes, or a setting sun ignites the sky, or a deer is seen standing alerted, the exclamation 'Ah!' may be uttered as a recognition of divinity."
-Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.”
~George Carlin
"The establishment does everything in its power to ensure that revolutionary rage is redirected into empty outlets which provide pressure releases for desires that could become dangerous if allowed to progress."
- George Jackson, Blood in My Eye
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” – William Burroughs
The wise man poops on company time.
The foolish man does it on break.
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