no. 607

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

Lauren Thatcher Ulrich

no. 606

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”


 P.C. Hodgell

no. 605

"Running away is embarrassing, but useful."

Supposedly a Hungarian proverb

no. 605

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” 

Malcolm X

no. 604

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” 

Malcolm X

no. 603

“As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends on one’s mastery of the language.” 

Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”

no. 602

“I am not domestic,” he muttered under his breath as he worked the spatula to save the pancake. “I am a force of nature which cannot be contained.”

From Michael Anderle's book "Compelling Evidence"

no. 601

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.” 

James Baldwin

no. 600

"When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant."

Thomas Jefferson...

Or perhaps not. Good phrase nonetheless.

no. 599

I wondered... if the people who had moved the jobs, whoever those people had actually been, ever came back to the city now , even to just drive through. And I wondered, when they did, what kind of feelings they might have, how they would explain the situation to themselves in a way that left them feeling like good people. Profit fed the life we lived, I knew that and saw the necessity of it. But those people had made a god of profit, it seemed to me, and according to the rules of their religion, if it was profitable to close the factory and ship the jobs overseas, then it was morally right. In order to keep from feeling guilty, they had, I supposed, devised all sorts of ways of thinking about what they did and didn't do, all sorts of clever rationalizations. It occurred to me that, in a different arena, I might be in the habit of doing the same thing.

Roland Merullo, from Breakfast With Buddha

no. 598

"Skepticism of authority is a built in prerequisite for a thinking person"

John Cusack on Twitter