GREAT QUOTE RE THE GREATER GOOD( 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
GOETHE QUOTE( 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
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinlein href /images/stranger-in-strange-land-cover.webp ... read more
STEVEN FISHMAN QUOTE( 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
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS QUOTE( 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
DENNIS GABOR QUOTE( culture / quotes )
The best way to predict the future is to create it! -- Dennis Gabor... read more
HANNAH ARENDT QUOTE( 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
THOMAS PAINE QUOTE( culture / quotes )
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. -- Thomas Paine... read more
LENIN QUOTE( culture / quotes )
The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves. -- Vladimir Lenin... read more
AARON RODGERS QUOTE( 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 QUOTE( 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
JOHN WAYNE QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid. -- search.brave.com/search?qjohn-wayne-quote&iawebJohn Wayne ... read more
THOMAS MERTON QUOTE( 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
MIKE TYSON QUOTE( 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
WALT WHITMAN QUOTE( 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
SO-CALLED EXPERTS( 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 QUOTE( 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 QUOTES( 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
RAND'S QUOTATIONS( 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 QUOTE( 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
LAURENCE J. PETER QUOTE( 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
BUCKMINSTER FULLER QUOTE( 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
LEONARDO DAVINCI QUOTE( 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 QUOTE( 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
VAN MORRISON QUOTE( 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 QUOTE( 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 QUOTE( 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
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON QUOTE( 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
WILLIAM ARTHUR HOLMES QUOTES( 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 with a lie... read more
ONE OF MY FAVORITE TWAIN QUOTES( 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
CHARLES BUKOWSKI QUOTES( 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
EINSTEIN QUOTES( 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 nature in i... read more
PROVERBS( culture / quotes )
...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
RUMI QUOTE( 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 QUOTES( 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 THOUGHT( 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
QUOTE ON TOLERANCE( 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
PUTTING WORDS IN MARK TWAIN'S MOUTH( 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 QUOTE( 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
QUOTE OF THE DAY (7/14/2012)( 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
A FEW MORE GOOD QUOTES( 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
QUOTE OF THE DAY (4/6/2010)( 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 QUOTES( 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 detrimental to... read more