Just love this little quote from the late Bob Weighton,He said the secret to his longevity was "to avoid dying".
“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” ---- “If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.” --- “This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.” Stokely Carmichael (Who changed his name; Kwame Ture)
"Science advances one funeral at a time". (Wrote Planck's admires condensing his argument) ‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’ This principle was famously laid out by German theoretical physicist Max Planck in 1950
"just because we've both been here 24 years, there's no reason why I should have to continue dwelling adjacently to you" Alice
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite. Every nation gets the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821)
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. Gore Vidal
My brother in laws first part in a school play was easy as he could say the lines backwards and it stayed the same” fish fresh fish “
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
