Below is everything (newest at top) with "culture OR movies-tv-video OR quotes" in its title or subcategories. For a strict listing (matching all categories and subcats), click hereGREAT QUOTE RE THE GREATER GOODfrom 2024 in ( culture / quotes )
From the writers of the TV show, Nikita, from 2010-2013. Yes, I've been watching. A guilty pleasure. First, I protect the people I love, then I worry about the greater good. From imdb.com/title/tt2256429/?refttepep16this episode , or... read more
WISDOM IS DEFINED BY WHAT YOU FOCUS ONfrom 2024 in ( culture / quotes / advice )
Focus on the title. :)... read more
PEOPLE CAN CHANGEfrom 2024 in ( culture / quotes / people )
People can change... if they remember why they changed before.... read more
LIFE IS MEANT TO BE ENJOYEDfrom 2024 in ( culture / quotes / philosophy / religion )
Life on Earth is essentially a struggle between those who believe it is meant to be enjoyed, like a dance with many partners, and those who think it is a never-ending competition to be controlled and dominated.... read more
GOETHE QUOTEfrom 2023 in ( culture / quotes )
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... read more
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE QUOTEfrom 2023 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
I love this quote!Capitol Hill is an assisted living facility for psychopathsRead the article here: caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/07/28/capitol-hill-is-an-assisted-living-facility-for-psychopaths-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/capitol-hill-is-an-assisted-living-fa... read more
THOMAS SOWELL QUOTEfrom 2023 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the U.S. if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences. -- Thomas Sowell... read more
STEVEN FISHMAN QUOTEfrom 2023 in ( culture / quotes )
People get what they deserve. Regardless of political party, if people support candidates who promote the Vaccine Holocaust, there will be 200 million dead Americans by 2030. If they support candidates who promote the supply chain crisis, there will be no diesel oil to transport food from the farms to the grocery stores. And if peop... read more
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN QUOTEfrom 2023 in ( culture / quotes )
Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinleinhref /images/stranger-in-strange-land-cover.webp ... read more
WE ARE LIKE RAINDROPSfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / philosophy / religion )
We are like raindrops. We start out as a collection of molecules in the clouds. When we get too heavy, we fall to the ground as glorious, individual raindrops, only to hit the ground and return to the collection as a puddle, lake or ocean. That, in a nutshell, is human existence.... read more
EMANUEL PASTREICH QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / covid )
covid-19 was a pandemic of cowardice, a pandemic of hypocrisy, a pandemic of ignorance and decadence, a pandemic of collaboration, a pandemic of horrific betrayal; in a nutshell, covid-19 was a pandemic of evil that makes the blood run cold.: emanuel... read more
STEPHEN HAWKING QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / science / aliens )
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. topsecretwriters.com/2020/10/was-stephen-hawkings-right-about-nasty-aliens/... read more
HERB POWELL QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies )
When they say the pandemic is not over, what they mean is, there's still vaccines to be taken, goal posts to be moved, and money to be made. -- Herb Powell... read more
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that you're bound to be okay because you're safely in the majority. -- Christopher Hitchens... read more
THOMAS EDISON QUOTESfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / science / health )
The doctor of the future will give little medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. -- Thomas Edison... read more
DENNIS GABOR QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
The best way to predict the future is to create it! -- Dennis Gabor... read more
STEPHEN LENDMAN QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies / politics )
We're lied to with headlines like 'US counts record 4,000 covid deaths in a day as virus continues to wreak havoc.' These deaths, if accurate in number, were from seasonal flu/influenza -- perhaps pneumonia, and/or related illnesses -- not covid. Individuals succumbing are largely elderly, infirm, likely with other healt... read more
ALDO LEOPOLD QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes / environment )
We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. -- Aldo Leopold... read more
THOMAS PAINE QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. -- Thomas Paine... read more
HANNAH ARENDT QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. -- Hannah Arendt... read more
LENIN QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves. -- Vladimir Lenin... read more
AARON RODGERS QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
If science can't be questioned ... it's propaganda. -- Quarterback Aaron RodgersCritically-thinking Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a guest on the Pat McAfee Show this week and he spoke about Big Government/Big Pharma/Big Healthcare's lack of information on all of the covid treatment opti... read more
DOSTOYEVSKY QUOTEfrom 2022 in ( culture / quotes )
It's life that matters, nothing but life. The process of discovering. The everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky... read more
MARIAN TURSKI QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics / covid )
...the Holocaust didn't start with death camps. Instead, it began with propaganda, scaremongering, scapegoating, segregation, and exclusion. Then, it was an easy next step to strip further rights, dehumanize, and brutally extinguish that minority. -- Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivorRead, listen or watch the res... read more
VERNON COLEMAN MD QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / covid )
Forcing individuals to have an experimental, toxic drug which has now almost certainly caused more deaths and injuries than any other prescription drug in history surely breaks laws in all civilized nations.;The PCR test is the most dangerous and useless test in medical history. -- search... read more
JOHN WAYNE QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid. -- search.brave.com/search?qjohn-wayne-quote&iawebJohn Wayne ... read more
BRUCE PARDY QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
...either individuals are essentially free to pursue their own interests, express their own thoughts, and own their own property, or the state directs their actions, words, and beliefs to comport with official dogma. -- search.brave.com/search?qBruce PardyBruce Pardy Read, l... read more
THOMAS MERTON QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
People are constantly trying to use you to help them create the particular illusions by which they live. This is particularly true of the collective illusions which sometimes are accepted as ideologies. You must renounce and sacrifice the approval that is only a bribe enlisting your support of a collective illusion. You must be will... read more
GUSTAVE LE BON QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / people )
The ascendancy of crowds indicates the death throes of a civilisation. Crowds are only useful for destruction. -- search.brave.com/search?qgustave-le-bon-quote&iawebby Gustave Le Bon in The Psychology of Crowds ... read more
MIKE TYSON QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the face. -- search.brave.com/search?qmike-tyson-quote&iawebMike Tyson, former champion boxer ... read more
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE CONFUSE WHAT THEY READ IN NEWSPAPERS WITH NEWSfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / news )
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -- search.brave.com/search?qpeople-everywhere-confuse-what-they-read-in-newspapers-with-news&iawebAJ Liebling, The New Yorker journalist from 1935 to 1963 ... read more
WALT WHITMAN QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
Keep your face always towards the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. -- search.brave.com/search?qwalt-whitman-quote&iawebWalt Whitman ... read more
TODD WAGNER QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth -- search.brave.com/search?qtodd-wagner-quote&iawebTodd Wagner ... read more
WILLIAM CASEY QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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
JOHN LENNON QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / music )
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. -- search.brave.com/search?qjohn-lennon-quote&iawebJohn Lennon UPDATE: Now, after watching imdb.com/title/tt8740976/?refnvsrsrsg0Inventing Anna o... read more
VINCE COYNER QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / tech / people )
Unlike Skynet, which gained self-awareness, Silicon Valley is full of people who seem to have no self-awareness at all. -- Vince Coyner, americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/whenlifeimitatesaterrifyingsciencefictionthriller.htmlhere ... read more
FAVORITE LINES FROM SONGS/LYRICSfrom 2021 in ( culture / music / lyrics / quotes )
Obviously a work in progress but, here goes... in no particular order. Lyrics verified on azlyrics.comazlyrics.com . PLEASE add your own by leaving a comment below! /images/u2-1980-90.webp Yo... read more
DANIEL HOROWITZ QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies / 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
SO-CALLED EXPERTSfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
Remember 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 is: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. -- search.brave.com/search?qLaurence J. Pe... read more
STEPHEN COVEY QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
Loyalty must not be a higher value than integrity... -- search.brave.com/search?qstephen-covey-quote&iawebStephen Covey ... read more
H.L. MENCKEN QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( 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 university a... read more
HITLER QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. -- search.brave.com/search?qhitler-quote&iawebAdolf Hitler (no, we're not endorsing him or this idea)... read more
JOSEPH GOEBBELS QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies / politics )
Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty. -- search.brave.com/search?qjoseph-goebbels-quote&iawebJoseph Goebbels I 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 Clinto... read more
TOM MULLEN QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- allseasonspress.com/Tom Mullen ... read more
BRUCE LEE QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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, it becomes the cup. You put water ... read more
NICHOLAS KLEIN QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. And then, they build monuments to you. -- union leader search.brave.com/search?qNicholas KleinNicholas Klein . See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NicholasKlein#AddresstotheClothingWor... read more
VOLTAIRE QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / philosophy )
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. 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 enjo... read more
SITTING BULL QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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 provide for themselves, and above all, the chi... read more
WINSTON CHURCHILL QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- search.brave.com/search?qwinston-churchill-quotes&iawebWinston Churchill ... read more
JOHN CLEESE QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
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
RAND'S QUOTATIONSfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
From, obviously and properly enough, Rand Lindsly, rand@skydiver.eng.sun.com, ashep.com/archive/loQtus/rand.htmlTake 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.... read more
THEODORE ROOSEVELT QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qtheodore-roosevelt-quote&iawebTheodore Roosevelt ... read more
RUDOLF STEINER QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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 works including The Philosophy of Freedom. ... read more
LAURENCE J. PETER QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qlaurence-j-peter-quote&iawebLaurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle ... read more
THOSE WHO TELL THE STORIES RULE SOCIETYfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / stories )
Those who tell the stories rule society. -- search.brave.com/search?qthose-who-tell-the-stories-rule-society&iawebPlato Or, maybe it was the Native American Proverb... Those who tell stories rule the world. It might be m... read more
CARL JUNG QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- href... read more
BUCKMINSTER FULLER QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- search.brave.com/search?qbuckminster-fuller-quote&iawebBuckminster Fuller ... read more
STALIN QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies / politics )
It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes. -- search.brave.com/search?qstalin-quote&iawebJosef Stalin /images/josef-stalin.webp... read more
VARIOUS POLITICAL QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- search.brave.com/search?qvarious-political-quotes&iawebJustice Louis Brandeis I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incu... read more
HARRY TRUMAN QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- ... read more
GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. -- search.brave.com/search?qgeorge-washington-quotes&iawebGeorge Washington ... read more
THOMAS SOWELL QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( 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.'Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals having trouble remembering that they are not God. -- Thomas Sowell... read more
NIETZSCHE QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qnietzsche-quote&iawebFriedrich Nietzsche ... read more
QUOTES BY CARL JUNG TO HELP YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND YOURSELFfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes / philosophy )
One of the things I love about Carl Jung is the fact that he was a deep philosophical thinker who examined all aspects of the self when writing about the human experience. As you will see in the quotes below, Jung was clear on the notion that we are spiritual...He said... Indeed, it is becoming ever ... read more
THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( 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.When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the cor... read more
LEONARDO DAVINCI QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qleonardo-davinci-quote&iawebLeonardo Da Vinci ... read more
EDGAR ALLAN POE QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. -- search.brave.com/search?qedgar-allan-poe-quote&iawebEdgar Allan Poe ... read more
GANDHI QUOTESfrom 2021 in ( 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 of history.Things that will destroy... read more
VAN MORRISON QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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
BOB MARLEY QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( culture / quotes )
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. -- search.brave.com/search?qbob-marley-quote&iawebBob Marley ... read more
ALLAN STEVO QUOTEfrom 2021 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qAllan StevoAllan Stevo ... read more
COLONEL CHARONNE QUOTES (FROM ANOTHER WAY: BEYOND THE STATUS QUO)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"You're that Commie, Pokorny! I should shoot you where you stand!""Pokorny's still out there selling that tripe and it needs to stop. Now! I want him gone! You know what I'm saying?" -- Colonel Charonne from ... read more
DOBIE POKORNY QUOTES (FROM ANOTHER WAY: BEYOND THE STATUS QUO)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"If you're not a conspiracy theorist these days, you're just not paying attention. Sure, some scoff at the mere thought of conspiracy, but ask any detective, lawyer or judge -- if you can find an honest one -- and they'll tell you conspiracies happen all th... read more
ALEX PANNAS QUOTES (FROM OPERATION DETOUR)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"If I seem flippant, that's just how I cope. You either laugh or you cry. You apparently start referring to yourself in the second person, too.""I'm a trusting person. I just took my doctor's word for it."... read more
RIVA PETKOVIC QUOTES (FROM OPERATION DETOUR)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"You might be smart with computers, but in real life you are a complete idiot.""Programmer, data entry clerk, whatever. How have you not gone insane already!?""Put some clothes on! Nobody wants to see that."... read more
BENNY REED QUOTES (FROM LOTTERY PRESIDENT)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"You really think the President is in charge of anything? He's a figurehead, a spokesman... he's the country's Vanna White.""Instead of voting for the person they like best, they vote for the one they think they have... read more
SEMMY QUOTES (FROM ANOTHER WAY: BEYOND THE STATUS QUO)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"Don't be scared when you feel you are about to die. You're not frightened when you wake up in the morning, are you? Pretty much the same thing. 'Life is but a dream!'""We are from beyond the Pleiades, in the eighth dimension...when... read more
OL' LIGHTNIN' QUOTES (FROM THE LAZY PUG CAFE)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / books / novels )
"It's not a tree's purpose in life to stand around being picturesque. Not this tree, at least. Maybe that weeping willow up front, or my old friends ruthlessly cut down in their prime when this place was built, but a mighty oak like me, a real tree's purpose is to... uh...... read more
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. -- search.brave.com/search?qlaurie-halse-anderson-quote&iawebLaurie Halse Anderson ... read more
SOLZHENITSYN QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.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 ... read more
ALDOUS HUXLEY QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( 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 them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will b... read more
CHRISTIAN JOSI (COLUMNIST) QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes / politics )
Polling: The gateway political drug to misinformation, mistakes and malfeasance. -- Christian JosiThis was actually just pjmedia.com/columns/christian-josi/2020/11/26/polling-the-gateway-political-drug-to-misinformation-mistakes-and-malfeasance-n1172454a headline , but I thought... read more
ADLAI STEVENSON QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qadlai-stevenson-quote&iawebAd... read more
ARTHUR C. CLARKE QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes / science )
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- search.brave.com/search?qarthur-c-clarke-quote&iawebArthur C. Clarke ... read more
CESAR A. CRUZ QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes / art )
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. -- Cesar A. Cruz: arikoinuma.com/blog/2017/03/art-should-comfort-the-disturbed-and-disturb-the-comfortable/arikoinuma.com ... read more
WILLIAM ARTHUR HOLMES QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
I've decided the world in fact DOES owe me a living. But until it pays up, I'll keep working. A novel is the fine art of never getting to the point. Stay loose, keep moving, stay true to yourself... always. All the lies we deal with can be disheartening until you realize life itself began w... read more
ONE OF MY FAVORITE TWAIN QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. -- Mark Twain... read more
GEORGE ORWELL QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( 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 people what they do not want to hear.In a world of unive... read more
BILL HICKS QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qBill HicksBill Hicks ... read more
CHARLES BUKOWSKI QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( 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 time voting.Some people never go crazy. What tru... read more
LEO TOLSTOY QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qLeo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy ... read more
EINSTEIN QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.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 na... read more
THE PURPOSE OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDAfrom 2020 in ( 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 repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all... read more
HUMOROUS QUOTES, PAGE 2from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
Some Thoughts On LifeRaising teenagers is like trying to nail 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 aerobics class pul... read more
HUMOROUS QUOTES, PAGE 3from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
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 which 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 ignoranc... read more
PROVERBSfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
...and anything else thought-provoking and/or inspirational.
...and anything else thought-provoking and/or inspirationalThe 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. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discove... read more
HUMOROUS QUOTES, PAGE 1from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
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. ... read more
BEING BAMBOOZLEDfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies )
This is great. Pretty similar to /pages/thought-for-today-4-17-2020/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 findin... read more
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( 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 that will herald the end of the republic. -- targ... read more
THOUGHT FOR TODAY (4/17/2020)from 2020 in ( culture / quotes / health / conspiracies )
It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled! -- search.brave.com/search?qMark TwainMark Twain ... read more
RUMI QUOTEfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- search.brave.com/search?qRumiRumi I happen to think there is nothing wrong with grieving. In fact, it is required. But I know what he's saying. -- Ed.... read more
ALL QUOTESfrom 2020 in ( culture / quotes )
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- Abraham LincolnWe 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... read more
LATEST DEEP THOUGHTfrom 2019 in ( culture / quotes )
One way or another, in our own inimitable way, we all do to others what was done to us. -- search.brave.com/search?qWilliam Arthur HolmesWilliam Arthur Holmes Wow, that was deep -- my sarcastic internal critic... read more
OUR THOUGHTSfrom 2019 in ( culture / quotes / philosophy / religion )
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world. -- Buddha... read more
RELIGION QUOTESfrom 2019 in ( culture / quotes / religion )
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- search.brave.com/search?qAbrahamLincolnAbraham Lincoln Heaven is by favor. If it were by merit, your dog would go in and you would stay out. -- hre... read more
WORDS TO LIVE BYfrom 2018 in ( culture / quotes / advice )
Stay loose, keep moving, stay true to yourself... always. /images/meme-always-be-batman.webpThis (click link) is pretty good advice , too.... read more
QUOTE ON TOLERANCEfrom 2017 in ( culture / quotes )
Total tolerance is not a virtue, it is a total lack of principles. -- Plainsman 2016And here are a couple more.Never trust a Republican with your PUBLIC LAND. Never trust a Democrat with your FIREARMS. -- search.brave.com/search?qBernie KuntzBernie ... read more
LESSON ON TAXESfrom 2017 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. -- search.brave.com/search?qBill MurrayBill Murray ... read more
ANOTHER GREAT QUOTEfrom 2017 in ( culture / quotes / conspiracies )
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 ought to disappear, for this would be a ... read more
PUTTING WORDS IN MARK TWAIN'S MOUTHfrom 2017 in ( culture / quotes )
Nice list: realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/10/faketwainquotesandotherhazardsoftwitter116376.htmlPutting Words in Mark Twain's Mouth I wonder if /pages/some-of-my-favorite-twain-quotesany of these are on that list... read more
FORREST GUMP QUOTEfrom 2014 in ( 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 more
AESOP QUOTEfrom 2013 in ( culture / quotes / philosophy )
We hang the petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop... read more
CHRIS HEDGES QUOTEfrom 2013 in ( 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 -- search.brave.com/search?qChris HedgesChris Hedges... read more
ON THE SUBJECT OF TYRANTSfrom 2012 in ( 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. -- search.brave.com/search?qPlatoPlato ... read more
QUOTE OF THE DAY (7/14/2012)from 2012 in ( 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. -- mailto:libertyuv@hotmail.comLiberty Underground News Service ... read more
QUOTE OF THE DAY (6/25/2012)from 2012 in ( 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. : titleDEBUNKED hrefanswers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid 120826085842AAwFmIvanswers.yahoo.com/questi... read more
A FEW MORE GOOD QUOTESfrom 2010 in ( 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 i... read more
ALL-TIME BEST MOVIE LINESfrom 2010 in ( culture / movies-tv-video / quotes )
I thought it'd be fun to come up with a list of the all-time best movie lines. Use the comments section below comments open again for your suggestions. Try and do it from memory. Don't worry about getting it exactly right. Here's what comes to my mind:We'll always have Paris -- Rick in Casablanca... read more
QUOTE OF THE DAY (6/21/2010)from 2010 in ( 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. -- (yes, I thought this one up myself!)... read more
QUOTE OF THE DAY (4/6/2010)from 2010 in ( 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. -- ... read more
MARK TWAIN QUOTESfrom 2010 in ( culture / quotes )
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do, you're misinformed.A classic is a book that is praised by all and read by no one.Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it! Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.Travel is de... read more
FOOD FOR THOUGHTfrom 2008 in ( culture / quotes / employment )
The corporation is a true Frankenstein's monster, an artificial person run amok, responsible only to its own soulless self. -- William DuggerFor more, go to dreamslaughter.com/BTB%2001.shtmldreamslaughter: Food For Thought .... read more
51 YEARS AGO (NOW 70+ YEARS AGO)from 2001 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
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'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.... read more
ANDY ROONEY QUOTES (SUPPOSEDLY)from 2000 in ( culture / quotes / humor )
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 costs forty thousand dollars a year to ... read more