"There are many deeply troubling facets to this case. But an important one, surely, is the degree to which it exposes so many humans as only too happy to believe lurid and destructive slurs served up by a tabloid media culture that they all know – or should know – exists to make money from peddling damaging sensation, the more outrageous the better."
--Journalist Deborah Orr on the acquittal of Amanda Knox
Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. ~ José Maria de Eça de Queiroz.
" In order to ensure public tranquility, two hundred thousand heads must be cut off."
Jean-Paul Marat
@edgarblythe,
Likely he didn't use English, however.
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy
•"'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“To be a playwright you have to have the heart of a poet and the skin of a rattlesnake.” --Tennessee Williams
@edgarblythe,
"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." -The Messiah
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Richard Dawkins.
“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
― Joseph Conrad
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.”
Jesse Jackson
@edgarblythe,
"“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”"
Susan Cain: The power of introverts
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
"“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.”"
Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim."
--Lyndon B. Johnson
@wandeljw,
Quote:Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner”
Marlon Brando
