July 11, 2008

  • Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself-except why he was born and the meaning of his unique life?-Margaret Storm Jameson

    Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. -Ouida

    You don't see things as they are. You see things as you are. -Talmud

    The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. -William Sloane Coffin

    The comtempt for law and the comtempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. -Margaret Mead

    Whether in the favelas of Rio de Jameiro, the barrios of Caracas, the ghettos of Newark, the mining towns of West Virginia, or the tarpaper villages of Gallup, Flagstaff, and Shiprock, it's the same world over-one big wretched family sequestered in sullen desperation, pawed over by social workers, kicked around by cops, and prayed over by the missionaries.-Edward Abbey

    Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil but by people being fundamentally people. -Terry Pratchett

    What you need is sustained outrage ... There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. -Molly Ivins