Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

Bill Hicks

[Nearly Sane]

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marian Anderson

[Nearly Sane]

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

[Nearly Sane]

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Gioachino Rossini

[Aruntraveller]

"We inhabit a world in which the answers to thorny moral questions are too often cast in black and white. Nuance is for losers: stray too far from your tribe and you’re accused of aligning yourself with rightwing religious fundamentalists or lefty woke warriors."

Sonia Sodha
 

[Nearly Sane]

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

Martial

[Nearly Sane]

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Sholom Aleichem

[Nearly Sane]

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Emile Chartier/Alain

[ekim]

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Hitler

[Nearly Sane]

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

Miriam Makeba

[ekim]

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

Hitler

[Nearly Sane]

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Penn Jillette

[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]

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[ekim]

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

Hitler

[Nearly Sane]

Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.

Kobo Abe

[Aruntraveller]

"They call you the Fiscal Drag Queen of British Politics," to Jeremy Hunt.

Amol Rajan

[Nearly Sane]

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.


Laurence J. Peter,

[Nearly Sane]

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!



Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

[Nearly Sane]

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yuri Gagarin

[Nearly Sane]

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

Kate Sheppard

[Nearly Sane]

"This is Sweet Sue saying good night, reminding all you daddies out there that every girl in my band is a virtuoso. And l intend to keep it that way."
- "Some Like It Hot" (1959)

[Nearly Sane]

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Naomi Shihab Nye

[Nearly Sane]

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Percival Lowell

[Nearly Sane]

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

Quincy Jones