no. 825

 “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

no. 824

 

no. 823

 "If it's not broke then fix it till it is"

Unknown 

no. 822

 It isn’t “sharing your faith” when you’re using legislation to do it. That’s “forcing your faith.”

Jesus never gave us the right to impose our religious beliefs on anyone.

When it violates human free will and matters of conscience, it isn’t about Jesus.

It’s about control.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer

no. 821

 

no. 820

“We are all human. 

We don't have *a point within* society. 

We *are* society”…

“We ARE society. This means that the whole point of society is us. It exists to sustain us, and while we bear the responsibility to be ourselves within it, it is a thing made by humanity and for humanity. It isn't a big box store to buy for billions and then sell off for parts.”

A. R. Moxon “The Whole Purpose”

no. 819

 "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." 

James Madison, Letter to Edward Livingston, 1822.

no. 818

 "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest- ridden people maintaining a free civil government, This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which thei civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

no. 817

 "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814.

no. 816

“Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.”

American philosopher Rick Sanchez

no. 815

 “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, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.”

Harry Truman, 1952

no. 814

 

no. 813

 “Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”

-Tommy Douglas, 1942

no. 812

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. 

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. 

With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”

Hannah Arendt

German historian and philosopher

(1906–1975)

no. 811

 

Apparently, Freeman didn’t actually say this. Still a great quote, whoever said it. 

no. 810

 “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

no. 809

 C. S. Lewis

no. 808

 "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." 

Justice Louis Brandeis

It’s possible that I’ve posted this before. Don’t care, really. 

no. 807

 

no. 806

 "Yes, people are in large part disappointing and/or disgusting. They're best avoided and observed at a safe distance." 

- Grumpy Sociologist (@OhHowByronic)