no. 679

...we were all living inside an enormous novel, an electronic novel, governed by instantaneity. In many ways, time didn’t exist in the sixties, just a set of endlessly proliferating presents. Time returned in the seventies, but not a sense of the future."

J. G. Ballard

no. 678

“The dangerous allure of Twitter is the illusion we can fix the world just with words.” 

@Xeni

no. 677

 "In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

no. 676

"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."

Arthur Miller

no. 675

"You can put a baked potato in the cockpit of a 747; that don't make it a pilot."

A. R. Moxon talking about President Donald J. Trump on Twitter.

no. 674

"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor."

Dorothy Day

no. 673

“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 their views.” 

Doctor Who


Yeah, I know he's a fictional character, but for all his impact on the world, he might as well be real

no. 672

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

Oscar Wilde. This is the full quote.

no. 671

"You can organize a book burning but we will always whisper them to each other, share them in the dark and let amazing art be the trees whose shade our children will use to write their own books that need to be burned."

@JurlinaAntonio

no. 670

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." 

Maya Angelou

No. 669

"R(ight)W(ing) psychology is instinctively deferential to hierarchy. Kiss up & shit down."

David Roberts (@drvox) on Twitter

no. 668

“And it was a choice. Never pretend you were forced. There is no force great enough to compel someone to do such things. There was no ulterior motive, no greater good. You did it for a pat on the head and a chance to have even more power. What more could you want, Ilia? You held lives in the palm of your hand and destroyed them at a whim. What more could you ever want?” 
“I wouldn’t expect you to understand.”
 “I don’t.” He shook his head. “But neither do you. That’s the worst part. You don’t even know what you wanted. You just killed and killed and killed. You were a force of evil and destruction without even having the decency to care why you did those things. The universe will be better off without you.” 
She screamed as his knife drove into her heart and twisted. With another scream, ripped deep from within her, she grabbed it and dragged it out. With only seconds remaining, she turned her face to the stone wall so that his face would not be the last thing she saw. 
Barnabas stood, looking down at her body. 
"It’s not enough, is it?" Shinigami asked. 
"It’s never enough", Barnabas told her. "I stopped believing in heaven and hell long ago—at least, as they’re spoken about in the religious texts. But I can see why the thought of them has endured. The idea that she could do so much wrong and just die, not living more than a moment of the terror and pain she inflicted, is an injustice I do not want to let go."

From The Vigilante Chronicles by Natalie Grey and Michael Anderle

no. 666

“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”

A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979

no. 665

“No voting on who gets to be people.”

N. K. Jemisin

no. 664

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” 

George Orwell

no. 663

“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, & independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.” 

Harry Truman, 1952

no. 662

“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” 

Clarence Darrow

no. 661

“Imagine if the media covered a hurricane not by describing its effects (damage done, lives lost, injuries inflicted) but by bringing on two people to debate whether there really was a hurricane.

That’s how they cover racism, and apparently anti-semitism too. The effects can never be discussed; we can only debate if it happened.”

Gin and Tacos on Facebook

no. 660

"Life is not a ledger. Your sins can't be paid off through good deeds. Your good deeds are not cancelled by your sins."

Cory Doctorow

no. 659

"The fact that some people still have consciences isn’t an aggression against people who have sold theirs away."

A. R. Moxon