Saturday, June 29, 2013
bankers
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
weak poisons
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
crackpot realists
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
C Wright Mills, 1956
Sunday, June 23, 2013
political parties
Democrats Work For Solutions; Republicans Pray The Problem Will Go Away.
Actor212
childhood
The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research ‘childhood.
Michael Chabon
Monday, June 10, 2013
life
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Albert Einstein
Friday, June 07, 2013
naked
Naked is when you ain't got no clothes on. Nekkid is when you ain't got no clothes on and you're up to something.
Lewis Grizzard
Thursday, June 06, 2013
pessimism
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
history
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Harry S Truman
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