“3/03/2010, 2:39pm EST”
“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.”
—George Bernard Shaw, writer and Nobel laureate (1856–1950) (via jennymarmalade)
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“2/23/2010, 10:31pm EST”
“Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight. If they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity.”
—The rabbit Strawberry, in Richard Adams’ Watership Down.
“2/02/2010, 12:57am EST”
(via nihilistidealist). Not to rain on the Johnny Depp parade, but this was a line from a movie — Don Juan DeMarco. Haha
“2/02/2010, 12:52am EST”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
—Oscar Wilde (via quote-book) (via lechuza) (via chasingbirds). Well, sometimes, anyway.
“1/31/2010, 12:33pm EST”
“Everyone is beautiful. Their grubbiness, their dirt and grime. Their humanity and their fear. Their ongoing guilt and bravery is inspiring and admirable. I see their faults and perfect flaws. They are so lovely. Those exact flaws use their imaginary hands to mold every nick and cut, every drop of blood and every scar on the person they adorn. Without these beautiful imperfections we would all be perfect, and what fun is that? Who wants to be truly untouched. Why would you look at a painting without paint? Why would you listen to music without sound? Why would you live without life.”
—Ashton Hill (via quote-book) (via gypsyriot). Such quotes are endlessly hilarious to me. This claims to be a quote about “everyone.” It isn’t (not even if we grant an artificially limited set of “humanity”). This represents itself as a catharsis, a catalyst for enhanced understanding and appreciation. It isn’t. This quote is the cri de coeur of the most annoying kind of narcissist — an insecure one, who feels compelled to justify to himself over and over that he is an object with value by asserting that he is a member of a set of inherently valuable objects. “Never mind trying to become ‘valuable’ — I already am! And you are too, which means that you have something in common with me and I can feel less alone.” Of course, even this simple level of self-awareness goes unachieved. I imagine that such a person will have this exact same so-called “revelation” a multitude of times throughout the course of his life, because he is clearly less than proficient at productively evaluating his words and the actual reasons why he is saying them at all. Instead of becoming more thoughtful, or artful, or graceful, or insightful, he’s going to be stuck — in a cycle of self-love and self-hatred that crowds out any possibility of genuine transformation and betterment. It is a battle with no winner, not even emotionally. And, for the record, the analogy at the end is both sophomorically conceived and just plain wrong.
“1/27/2010, 9:04pm EST”
“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
—Howard Zinn (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
“1/24/2010, 5:52pm EST”
“Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.”
—Joseph Heller (Author of Catch 22) (via bradicalmang) (via secrets0ciety)
“1/15/2010, 12:50am EST”
“Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson | Submitted by: Lynn Nguyen (via quote-book) (via angeldustdreamer)
“1/13/2010, 12:02am EST”
“And always know deep down that it’s the Republicans who will keep you and your family safe to enjoy the hellscape the world will become.”
—John Oliver, Daily Show, 1/11/10.
“1/12/2010, 7:41pm EST”
“This is not Jay Leno’s fault. And it is not Conan O’Brien’s fault. Let’s just call it what it is. This whole mess is a direct result of atrocious management by a once great American network. The networks just do not treat late night shows with respect. For example, this morning my caviar was supposed to get here at 10:00 am. And it did not get here until 10:05, which completely ruined my massage.”
—Craig Ferguson, host of CBS’s Late Late Show.
“1/09/2010, 1:24pm EST”
“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”
—Charles Bukowski (via thetimelime) (via thelongflop)
“1/08/2010, 2:52pm EST”
Rudy Giuliani has now claimed on Good Morning America (yay for YouTube): “We had no domestic [‘terror’] attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama [re: failed underwear bomber].”
Not only was Giuliani the mayor of NYC during the Bush Administration at the time of the 9/11 attacks, he also shamelessly capitalized on the attacks to raise his national profile. He eventually ran for president in 2008, a campaign during which he earned the nickname Mr. Noun-Verb-9/11. (That’s all he talked about.)
Moreover, there were four attacks on 9/11 alone: American Airlines Flights 11 and 77, and United Airlines Flights 93 and 175. Moreover, there were mailed anthrax attacks that same month. Moreover, there was the infamous failed shoe bombing attack that took place in American airspace on a flight to Miami in December 2001.
As for Giuliani’s personal “national security” credibility, NYC’s multi-million dollar command center was destroyed on 9/11 because he personally made the decision, against expert recommendation, to build it in the World Trade Center — even though it was widely understood to be the likeliest target in the event of an attack. Why? So he and his mistress would have a convenient rendezvous point near Giuliani’s office in City Hall. In any case, Giuliani didn’t do much commanding that day.
Back to Bush, that’s 6 domestic attacks that we know about within the first year of Bush’s administration, which then exploited those events to usurp hundreds of billions in public money to wage two failed wars (the larger one being blatantly unjustified, inflammatory, and illegal). Giuliani was right there with them, the consummate cheerleader.
Giuliani’s statement can only be rationally viewed as one element of a concerted right-wing effort to revise history in their favor. As poor as establishment liberals may be at taking advantage of their power, we would be absolute fools to put the foxes back in the henhouse.
“1/07/2010, 12:37pm EST”
“You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.”
—Vincent, Gattaca.
“1/05/2010, 7:41pm EST”
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Charlie:
You can't just torture someone because you think they're guilty.
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Frank:
Oh don't give me that liberal bullshit.
“1/04/2010, 8:44pm EST”
“The civilized will smile as they tear you limb from limb.”
—Derrick Jensen (via bradicalmang). It’s true.
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