The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the
truth.
H. L. Mencken
"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used
to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad
things are very easy to get."Confucius
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to
the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead
for an authoritarian system, disguised, as a Democracy. We pay through
the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and
then wonder how all those ******** got in there.
Barbara Ehrenreich:
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with
mine, though I have not quarreled with him?"
- Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves
"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some
kind of change."