no. 621

“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”

G. K. Chesterton

no. 620

"And that's what civilization is. A complex set of rules detailing who is allowed to steal from who."

Sam Starfall in the webcomic "Freefall" (comic #fv03174)

no. 619

Patricia: "My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."

From the film "Joe vs. the Volcano"

no. 618

"Yes what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" 

David Mitchell

no. 617

"All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."

Warren Beatty in "Bulworth"

no. 616

“It is a hopeless misjudgement to think that one could force a dictatorial regime upon the German nation. The diversity of the German people calls for democracy.”

- Theodor Wolff, Prominent German journalist, January 1933

Proving journalists are far from omniscient

no. 615

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

Martin Luther King

no. 614

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people, it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

James Baldwin

no. 612

"You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure."

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

no. 611

"...sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself, that's what sin is."
     "It's a lot more complicated than that-"
     "No. It aint. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried they wont like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
     "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes-"
     "But they starts with thinking about people as things..."

From Terry Pratchett's book Carpe Jugulum

no. 610

“The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.”

Eugene V. Debs

no. 609

“There is something wrong in this country; the judicial nets are so adjusted as to catch the minnows and let the whales slip through and the Federal judge is as far removed from the common people as if he inhabited another planet.”

Eugene V. Debs

no. 608

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" 

Anton Chigurh.

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"