no. 1194

 "But they [all of the rapists] did share one thing: a sense of entitlement. An attitude of complete indifference to whatever anyone said or thought, because power had always been on their side."

Gisèle Pelicot

no.1193

 “At some stage, the Human Species will divide. Whilst most will continue to evolve, a minority of those lacking the intellectual capacity of thought, will develop as a sub-species. Being easily lead, form into Packs attempting to control the majority. They will deny biology, attempt to undo the centuries of human development by re-writing history, and gradually revert to their Primate Origins. They will expect all to conform to their point of view without question.”

supposedly, Charles Darwin. 

no. 1192

 “I love a dog, he does nothing for political reasons.” 

Will Rogers, December 3, 1933

no. 1191

 “The problem is, confident idiots have bigger platforms than qualified experts.”

Lucas Bean

no. 1190

 "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." 

FDR, 1936

no. 1189

 Nothing can last forever.

When the sun has shone brightly, it returns to the Ocean.

The moon wanes, though just now she was full.

The fierceness of love often becomes a gentle breeze.

- Graffiti, Pompeii, shortly before AD 79

no. 1188

 "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 

 Aristotle

no. 1187

 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.For the traitor appears not a traitor — He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.He rots the soul of a nation--he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city--he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."

-Cicero, Roman statesman, 42 BC

no. 1186

 "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." 

Plato

no. 1185

 "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book."

Groucho Marx

no. 1184

 “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly of them, they should have behaved better” 

 Anne Lamott

no. 1183

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

Clarence Darrow, 1932

no. 1182

 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." 

Abraham Lincoln

no. 1181

 "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." 

Voltaire

no. 1180

 “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

 Bill Watterson, 

no. 1179

 “You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” 

Corey Doctorow

no. 1178

 “Any wisdom on trying to do that?”

 “Live with yourself?” 

“Yeah.” 

“It’s easy. Keep yourself busy with something you enjoy doing, learn to feed yourself what you like to eat, pick up after yourself, do your own cleaning if you can’t afford a butler or maid droid, cleaner bots, or a registered cleaning company, and don’t take life too seriously. Socialize when you can, but never stay to the end, because that’s where the lonely people are, desperately waiting to hook up with someone to avoid being lonely, because they never learnt how live alone.”

Timothy Ellis, from Easter Mage

no. 1177

"Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them."  

 Pope Leo XIV

no. 1176

 “Relationships are basically two sets of neurosis trying to determine if they can co-exist.”

Timothy Ellis

no. 1175

 "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement."

B. F. Skinner, born on this day in 1904