Great & Meaningful Quotes

[officerripley]

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."

~~Aldous Huxley

 

[Babs2u]

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” — George Orwell

 

[spectratg]

“My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.'” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu (January 2008)

 

[officerripley]

 

[officerripley]

"Leave {the Grand Canyon} as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.”

~~U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt

 

[squatting dog]

 

[MoBeans]

"The future ain’t what it used to be" - Yoggi Bera

 

[officerripley]

 

[MoBeans]

 

[officerripley]

"And sin...is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."

~~Terry Pratchett

 

[Been There]

“Among those who served on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue." Chester Nimitz

Chester William Nimitz 24 February 1885 – 20 February 1966) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.[2]

 

[papa tiger]

“I don’t understand all this hate in the world.”
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
author
Farewell to Manzanar
book
Rigu Sukai Wakatsuki
character
hate
ᐧ
don't understand
ᐧ
world

I didn't just hear the words, I understand! < thas my thoughts to quote.

 

[papa tiger]

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Keep telling the same lies over and over again and people will accept them as truths. Thas my th-aughts.

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[officerripley]

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

~~U.S. civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer

 

[officerripley]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectliberal.org
"An Avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws..."

— Thomas Paine, English American writer and pamphleteer whose "Common Sense" and other writings influenced the American Revolution, and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence

 

[Marie5656]

 

[officerripley]

"The only response to absolute evil is fraternity."

~~Andre Malraux, Cultural Affairs Minister of France 1959-1969

 

[Babs2u]

"The future ain’t what it used to be" - Yoggi Bera

Somehow that one makes sense.

 

[MoBeans]

Somehow that one makes sense.

I plan to have that one on my gravestone

 

[MarkD]

Project Liberal (@projectliberal.org)
"An Avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws..."

— Thomas Paine, English American writer and pamphleteer whose "Common Sense" and other writings influenced the American Revolution, and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence

The urge to punish is just the toddler’s urge to strike out at what it perceives to be holding from him what he wants. He easily becomes resentful and has not yet developed the capacity for patience, self restraint or a regard for anything but himself.

- some nobody

 

[officerripley]

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

[officerripley]

 

[MarkD]

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Perhaps second only to actually traveling to where other people live and meeting those who travel here. I'm a big fan of books.

 

[officerripley]

"Why do we say 'slept like a baby'? Babies wake up every two hours crying. I want to sleep like my cat. 14 hours, no responsibilities, zero regrets."

~~Natasha Jay