( culture / quotes ) "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis Brandeis
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- H... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." -- George Washington... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists.'" - Thomas Sowell
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( culture / quotes ) "If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say 'Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!' And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him." -- Friedrich Nietzsche... read more
( culture / quotes ) One of the things I love about Carl Jung is the fact that he was a deep philosophical thinker whoexamined all aspects of the self when writingabout the human experience. Asyou will see in the quotes below, Jung was clear on the notion that we are spiritual... Read the rest of the article here... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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( culture / quotes ) "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
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"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt, and a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness."
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of... read more
( culture / quotes ) Remember, those who are shutting down our economy haven't missed a paycheck since lockdown began. We are not in this together. -- Van Morrison... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Beware of information obedient to the status quo. When information is obedient to a status quo, it deserves a special level of skepticism to avoid the bias known as confirmation bias, an easy bias to fall into."
Read the rest of the article at looking-for-warriors-face-masks-giving-in-p... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles."
"Violence does not always and necessarily lunge straight for your throat; more often than not it demands of its subjects onl... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "Polling: The gateway political drug to misinformation, mistakes and malfeasance." -- Christian Josi
This was actually just a headline, but I thought it was great all by itself.
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( culture / quotes / politics ) "The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism." -- Adlai Stevenson
Today, it's the cloak of a bad flu bug... read more
( culture / quotes / art ) "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." -- Cesar A. Cruz
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( culture / quotes / writing ) "A novel is the fine art of never getting to the point."
"All the lies we deal with can be disheartening until you realize life itself began with a lie or, if you prefer, a bit of creative fiction. A story. And, we all love a good story! Make yourself the hero."
"I'... read more
( culture / quotes ) "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." -- Mark Twain
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( culture / quotes / politics ) "No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end."
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to ... read more
( culture / quotes ) "The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind." -- Bill Hicks
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( culture / quotes ) "The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste ... read more
( culture / quotes / people ) "People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing -- refusing to participate in activities that make life bad." -- Leo Tolstoy
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( culture / quotes ) "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
"Our task as humans must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty.... read more
( culture / quotes / conspiracies ) "The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to rep... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) Some Thoughts On Life
Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
There is always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Reason to smile: Every seven minutes of every day, someone in ... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) Somethin' to think about
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them ... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) Somethin' to think about
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun.
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
If ... read more
( culture / quotes ) Proverbs and anything else thought-provoking and/or inspirational
The Fence
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Th... read more
( culture / quotes ) This is great. Pretty similar to one by Mark Twain, actually, but I am adding it here, anyway:
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we have been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The b... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money... read more
( culture / quotes / health / conspiracies ) "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled!" -- Mark Twain
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( culture / quotes ) "Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." -- Rumi
I happen to think there is nothing wrong with grieving. In fact, it is required. But I know what he's saying. -- Ed.
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( culture / quotes ) "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln"
"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion ... read more
( culture / quotes ) "One way or another, in our own inimitable way, we all do to others what was done to us." -- William Arthur Holmes
Wow, that was deep -- William's internal critic
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( culture / quotes / religion ) "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln"
"When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization he said, "It would be a good idea."
"Heaven is by favor. If it were by merit, your dog would go in and... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Total tolerance is not a virtue, it is a total lack of principles." - Plainsman 2016"
And here are a couple more...
"Never trust a Republican with your PUBLIC LAND. Never trust a Democrat with your FIREARMS." -- Bernie Kuntz 2016
"To one who has faith, no explanat... read more
( culture / quotes / humor ) "The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream."
- Bill Murray
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( culture / quotes ) "The bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ... read more
( culture / quotes ) Nice list: Putting Words in Mark Twain's Mouth
I wonder if any of these are on that list
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( culture / quotes ) Just because it made me laugh out loud ...
"Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Forrest: Who I'm gonna be?
Jenny: Yeah.
Forrest: Aren't I going to be me?"
Read the rest of the article at Forrest Gump.
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( culture / quotes / politics ) "We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy" -- Chris Hedges
Don't forget judges, CEOs and regu... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." -- Plato
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( culture / quotes ) "The War on Terror(TM) is a product. It doesn't exist 'to keep us safe'; on the contrary, it exists to keep us in a state of fear." - Liberty Underground News Service
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( culture / quotes / politics ) "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire
Good quote, but apparently not spoken by Voltaire.See answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid20120826085842AAwFmIv
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( culture / quotes ) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis Brandeis
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own ... read more
( culture / quotes / economy ) "Watching Titanic the part where the ship is sinking is like watching the U.S. economy, where the rich conspire to sink as many of the poor as they possibly can." - Bill Holmes (yes, I thought this one up myself!)
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( culture / quotes ) "For life to work well for most people today, the universe has chosen an unlucky few for whom nothing works at all. :) Try and keep that in mind as you go through your day." - Bill Holmes
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( culture / quotes ) "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled!"
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're mi... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."
"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 will only buy a used one."
"If cigarettes keep g... read more
( culture / humor / quotes )
Andy Rooney on Monica. Can you believe it? Monica turned 28 this week. It seems like only yesterday that she was crawling round the White House on her hands and knees.
... on Vegetarians. Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter".
... on Prisoners. Did you kno... read more
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