"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss, writer (1904-1991)
“Your government is not your enemy until you stop paying attention.” ~ Joel Seymour Harris, Songwriter and Muscian (1958 - )
“What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?” ~ Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)
"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves." -Eric Hoffer, philosopher & author (1902-1983)
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
"An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind" - John Mellencamp
“Russ is right an annoyingly large percentage of the time” – Linda St-Cyr (1953 - )
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." - George Bernard Shaw
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. - Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)
A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. - Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957)
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin, Author
"It
is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely
uneducated." - Alec Bourne
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
"Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile I caught hell for." - Earl Warren
"Good wine is a necessity of life for me." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. -Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)
"A democracy is not inherently better or safer for it's citizens than a monarchy or dicatorship, if there are no Bill of Rights to protect individual rights. In fact, it can be infinitely more dangerous without the enforced, legal protection of minority rights" - Charles Gargiulo Jr.
(his response to the quote below)
He's Not famous for anything yet. But he will be.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
America
will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our
freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln,
16th U.S. President (1809-1865)
"Resist much. Obey little." - Walt Whitman
"Reality is for those who can't handle rocks." - Steve Hardinger
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. -Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie
Thanks to Charlie Gargiulo for sending me this one.
The
road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and
err again, but less and less and less. -Piet
Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me. -Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1769-1821)
My
Wife said to me that the average man thinks about sex 40 times a day
and I said, “I can’t understand how they keep losing concentration!”
-Ian Gillan (1945-
)
If a man says something in the forest and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge: fitter to bruise than polish. -Anne Bradstreet, poet (1612-1672)