Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by kennyc

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht

[badgoodDeb]

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged. -Norman Mailer, author (31 Jan 1923-2007) [from A.Word.A.Day]

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged. -Norman Mailer, author (31 Jan 1923-2007) [from A.Word.A.Day]

[covingtoncat73]

“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

[astrangerhere]

...the negligence and incompetence of some should not be concealed by the patriotism of others.

From "The Zero Meter Diving Team" by Jim Shepard, published in BOMB magazine in 2007.

[Larla]

Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive."

From Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

[covingtoncat73]

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

[kennyc]

Truth!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

So very stolen and already posted to my Facebook page! That's a great one.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

So very stolen and already posted to my Facebook page! That's a great one.

It is. One of David Mitchell's stated purposes in writing Cloud Atlas was to make an anti-Atlas Shrugged.

"Sleep, if you can. If not, then drink Scotch. Or pray. Survive in your own way..." R.A. MacAvoy, Tea With the Black Dragon

[Larla]

I think Karl Marx may have beaten Mitchell by writing several books that were anti-Atlas Shrugged. Of course those books were written before Atlas Shrugged also.

[covingtoncat73]

Monostatos: "But sir, I followed all the laws."

Sarastro: "No, friend, you only followed yours."

~From the Kenneth Branagh-directed, Stephen Fry-librettoed Magic Flute

[covingtoncat73]

"How can one scandalize a maitre d’hotel? Such a man has seen it all before. And if one did succeed in subjecting him to scandal, I don’t believe his face would express his condition."

R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

[covingtoncat73]

Stephen Fry, Making History

[AlexBell]

'All the evil in life, it seems to me, comes from idleness, boredom, and spiritual emptiness, and all this is inevitable when one is accustomed to living at other people's expense.'

Anton Chekhov, in The Chorus Girl and Other Stories