Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.


Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[Nearly Sane]

"Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[Nearly Sane]

Radio 4 today

 Dominic Raab " we have all of the tools in the cabinet "

[Aruntraveller]

"It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does."

Agnes Moorhead

[Nearly Sane]

"There are so many absurdities in our time that it is hard to assign first place." — Hannah Arendt

[Aruntraveller]

When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is still burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant.  - Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

[Nearly Sane]

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." — Hannah Arendt

[Aruntraveller]

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. - Voltaire

[Nearly Sane]

G.K. Chesterton in 1911: “Satire has weakened in our epoch for several reasons, but chiefly, I think, because the world has become too absurd to be satirised.”

[Aruntraveller]

To which one can only reply:

 plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

[Nearly Sane]

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde

[Aruntraveller]

"You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."  Doctor Who (scriptwriter - Chris Boucher)

[Aruntraveller]

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. – Charles Bukowski

[Aruntraveller]

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” - Hubert Reeves

[Nearly Sane]

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

[ekim]

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."

Hitler

[Nearly Sane]

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[ekim]

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Hitler

[Nearly Sane]

"I can face the winter with calm. I'd been thinking of the winter as a horrid, wet, dreary time. Now I can see other things-crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well." A.A.Milne

[Aruntraveller]

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy

Noel Coward

[Nearly Sane]

If you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed

Mark Twain

[Nearly Sane]

“Of course I am a feminist. I have been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side”.


Maya Angelou

[Nearly Sane]

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognising how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[Nearly Sane]

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

David Bowie

[Nearly Sane]

The more it
SNOWS-tiddely-pom
 The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
 The more it
 GOES-tiddely-pom
 On
Snowing.
 And nobody
KNOWS-tiddely-pom,
 How cold my
 TOES-tiddely-pom
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
Are
 Growing
(by Winnie-the-Pooh)
~A.A.Milne