This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now: . . . there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know . . . ," and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. —David Foster Wallace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: friends family loyalty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: politics power enemies change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: politics power language decisions propaganda consumption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. —Longchenpa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day a man approached Ikkyu and asked: "Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?" Ikkyu took his brush and wrote: "Attention." "Is that all?" asked the man. Ikkyu then wrote: "Attention. Attention." "Well," said the man, "I really don't see much depth in what you have written." Then Ikkyu wrote the same word three times: "Attention. Attention. Attention." Half angered, the man demanded: "What does that word attention mean, anyway?" Ikkyu gently responded, "Attention means attention. —The Little Zen Companion More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the "miracle of birth" should come witness the "miracle of death" performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country. —Phyllis Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If cats could talk, they wouldn't. —Nan Porter More about this quote Tags: cats talk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Peacekeeper missile." Doesn't that sound like "ax-murderer baby sitter"? —Elayne Boosler More about this quote Tags: peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says, "To whom it may concern. —Anonymous resident of Belfast, Ireland, quoted in the London Guardian, 1991 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is nonexistent; hence social harmony is but a myth. . . . Thus the entire arsenal of government — laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons — is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. —African proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who are racially marginalized are like the miner's canary: their distress is the first sign of a danger that threatens us all. —Gerald Torres and Lani Guinier More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. —Ralph Ellison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera. —Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email