( culture / quotes / news ) "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." -- AJ Liebling, The New Yorker journalist from 1935 to 1963 ... read more
( culture / quotes / covid ) "The flu is not a hoax. Renaming it covid and calling it a pandemic is the hoax." -- anonymous in response to the comment Why bother with Ivermectin if it's all just a hoax? ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false."William Casey, CIA Director, 1981 ... read more
( culture / quotes / covid ) "Only the sick governing elites can look you in the eye with a straight face and force experimental injections on you because masks didn't work while simultaneously forcing masks on you because the injections didn't work." ... read more
( culture / quotes ) From Rand's QuotesRemember these when the news media holds someone up as an authority or expert in their attempt to make you go along with the program, whatever that program may be.Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. -- Laurence J. PeterWei ... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.""The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.""It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a univ ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Adolf Hitler (no, we're not endorsing him or this idea)... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty." -- Joseph GoebbelsI first noticed this coming from Bush-Cheney in 2000. Then, of course -- because no politician can let a good dirty trick go to waste -- Hillary Clinton and friends started using it (on steroids) in 2008 onward. ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "We even have an organization that styles itself, AntiFa, its chief means for fighting fascism being to dress all in black and beat its political opponents with clubs." -- Tom Mullen... read more
( culture / quotes / philosophy ) "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. And then, they build monuments to you." -- union leader Nicholas Klein. See wikipedia.org/wiki/NicholasKlein"Klein's words are often summarized as 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight y ... read more
( culture / quotes / philosophy ) "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.""Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.""Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.""Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.&... read more
( culture / quotes / philosophy ) "Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, for no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is the one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot pro... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." -- Winston Churchill... read more
( culture / quotes ) From, obviously and properly enough, Rand Lindsly, rand@skydiver.eng.sun.com, Take me back to loQtus!"I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise" -- W.C. Fields (1880-1946) "He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama." -- E.M. Cioran "There's no unde ... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) "Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.""Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.""He who laughs most, learns best."... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Get action; do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action." -- Theodore Roosevelt... read more
( culture / quotes / philosophy ) Does this remind you of anything happening RIGHT NOW?Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical wo... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." -- Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle ... read more
( culture / quotes / stories ) "Those who tell the stories rule society" -- PlatoOr, maybe it was..."Those who tell stories rule the world." -- Native American ProverbIt might more accurately be stated, Those whose stories are heard/read rule the world. Some of us are fairly invisible out here. :) Just sa... read more
( culture / quotes / philosophy ) "...it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man's greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes." -- Carl ... read more
( 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 ab ... 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... read more
( culture / quotes / philosophy ) "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 / philosophy ) "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..."See also: &... 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... read more
( 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... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) ""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 ... 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." looking-for-warriors-face-masks-giving-in-proceeding-boldl ... 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 only ... 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 JosiThis was actually just a headline, but I thought it was great all by itself. pjmedia.com ... read more
( 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 StevensonToday, it's the cloak of a bad flu bug calle... read more
( culture / quotes / art ) "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." -- Cesar A. Cruz arikoinuma.comNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels! ... read more
( culture / quotes ) "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've decid... read more
( culture / quotes ) "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." -- Mark TwainNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 tell... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "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 HicksNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 your t... 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 TolstoyNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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.&q... 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 LifeRaising 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 an aerobic... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) Somethin' to think aboutLiving 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.If ignorance ... read more
( culture / humor / quotes ) Somethin' to think aboutLiving 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 ignorance is bl ... read more
( culture / quotes ) Proverbs and anything else thought-provoking and/or inspirationalThe FenceThere 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. Then i ... 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 bam... 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 tha... read more
( culture / quotes / health / conspiracies ) "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled!" -- Mark TwainNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( culture / quotes ) "Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." -- RumiI happen to think there is nothing wrong with grieving. In fact, it is required. But I know what he's saying. -- Ed.NEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 de ... 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 HolmesWow, that was deep -- William's internal criticNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 you wou ... 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 explanation is n ... read more
( culture / quotes / humor ) "The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream." - Bill MurrayNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 MouthI wonder if any of these are on that listNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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?" Forrest Gump.NEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 HedgesDon't forget judges, CEOs and regulatory... 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." -- PlatoNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 ServiceNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels! ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics ) "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- VoltaireGood quote, but apparently not spoken by Voltaire.See answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid20120826085842AAwFmIvNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels! ... read more
( 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 ab ... 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!)NEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels!... read more
( 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 HolmesNEW! Random samples of dialogue from my novels! ... read more
( culture / quotes ) "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.""It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled!""A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.""If ... 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 going up in price, I'... 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 know that it ... read more
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