Slouching Towards Oblivion

Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Monday, February 26, 2024

Today's Quote


Find the enemy that wants to end this American experiment in democracy and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.
--Gen Jim Mattis, USMC

Friday, February 23, 2024

Today's Religion Stuff

  • Hindus have been waiting for Kalki for 3,700 years
  • Buddhists have been waiting for Maitreya for 2,600 years
  • The Jews have been waiting for the Messiah for 2,500 years
  • Christians have been waiting for Jesus for 2,000 years
  • Sunnah waits for Prophet Issa for 1,400 years
  • Muslims have been waiting for a messiah from the line of Muhammad for 1,300 years
  • Shiites have been waiting for Imam Mahdi for 1,080 years
  • Druze have been waiting for Hamza ibn Ali for 1,000 years
Most religions adopt the idea of a “savior” and state that the world will remain filled with evil until this savior comes and fills it with goodness and righteousness.

Maybe our problem on this planet is that people expect someone else to come solve their problems instead of doing it themselves.

The first thing you do is get up off your fuckin' knees. And then, if you're paying attention, The Evil will show you what's next.

“Speak up, speak out,
get in the way.
Get in good trouble,
necessary trouble,
and help redeem the soul of America.”
--John Lewis

Friday, November 24, 2023

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Sez


I'm alive in the universe,
but I feel small.
No.
The universe is alive within you,
and you should feel large.

Thursday, June 08, 2023

Today's Quote

We are like books. Most will never see more than our cover. Many will believe the critics. Some will read only the foreword. Very few will ever know our true content.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Today's Quote


If you look closely at nature
with a little of luck
you can catch a glimpse
of something deeply hidden
-- A Einstein

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Today's Quote


One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did, but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live.

Monday, November 21, 2022

Some Quotes

Happy birthday, Monsieur Arouet.


François-Marie Arouet  
21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778

French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.




Sunday, August 28, 2022

Today's Quote


Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles; the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Friday, August 26, 2022

Today's Quote

I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism - all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.
--John D MacDonald - A Deadly Shade Of Gold

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Today's Quote



When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time, they create for themselves a system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.  -- Frédéric Bastiat

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

These Modern Times

The GOP is the Party Of The Memory Hole.

They talk about Lincoln, but only because he was the first Republican, and is now their only hope to fool black folks into supporting the GOP.

Once in a while, we hear a Republican mention Reagan in softly glowing terms, but even The Gipper has faded a little.

They never mention Poppy Bush - "Read my lips no new taxes".

They won't invite W to their conventions, for fear that somebody might remember the fucked-up-edness of the Iraq invasion.

And they sure as hell don't talk about Goldwater anymore - not since he clashed head on with the new power wing.

WaPo - Sep 16,1981: (pay wall)

Goldwater Lashes Religious Pressure

Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), long the symbol of the conservative movement, said yesterday he will fight "every step of the way" against religious groups that seek to pressure public officials.

In a breakfast interview with a group of reporters and in a speech on the Senate floor, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee said, "I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that, if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C or D....I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate."

Goldwater clashed sharply a few weeks ago with anti-abortion groups and the Moral Majority, when they criticized President Reagan's choice of Arizona Circuit Judge Sandra Day O'Connor for the Supreme Court. He told reporters yesterday morning he had been looking for a public forum in which to broaden his attack. After rehearsing the speech at breakfast, he decided to deliver it on the Senate floor.

"I don't like the New Right," Goldwater said. "What they're talking about is not conservatism."

In the formal speech, the Arizonan asked Americans to "look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon," all of which he said stemmed from "injecting religious issues into the affairs of state."

"By maintaining the separation of church and state," Goldwater said, "the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars."

Citing such groups as the Moral Majority and "pro-life" organizations, Goldwater called "the religious factions that are growing throughout our land...a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system, if they gain sufficient strength."

He said, "Far too much of the time of members of Congress and officials of the Executive Branch is used up dealing with special-interest groups on issues like abortion, school busing, ERA, prayer in the schools and pornography."

Goldwater said he shared "many of the values emphasized by these organizations," but would "fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' "

Asked about the bill to encourage chastity among teen-agers that was sponsored by one of the "New Right" senators, Jeremiah Denton (R-Ala.), Goldwater asked, "How the hell are you going to regulate that? They've been trying ever since the apple. It's just like abortion. You can make them unconstitutional but they're still going to go out and have one."





Today's Quote

Friday, June 17, 2022

Today's Quote



"Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
--Mark Twain

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Teddy Roosevelt, POTUS #26

On April 23, 1910 - a year after leaving office - Theodore Roosevelt gave what would become one of his greatest rhetorical triumphs.

The most famous section of his speech still resonates and inspires.

It is not the critic who counts.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Today's Quote




Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
- John Steinbeck

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Today's Quote


Bees don't waste their time
explaining to flies
why honey is better than shit.
Stop arguing with MAGA rubes.
-- anon.

Sunday, May 08, 2022

The King Nerd

Carl Sagan - "...this combustible mixture of ignorance and power..."

Monday, March 28, 2022

Today's Quote


Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.  --Abraham Lincoln

However great you perceive Lincoln to have been, he was ever greater than that.

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Today's Quote


George Carlin 1937 - 2008

I wanna live my life backwards.
You start out dead - get that out of the way.
Wake up in a nursing home, feeling better every day.
Then they kick you out for being too healthy, enjoy your retirement and collect your pension.
Then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day, and you work 40 years until you're too young to work.
You get ready for high school - drink, party, and you're generally promiscuous.
Then you go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, and have no responsibilities.
Then you become a baby, and then ... you spend your last nine months floating peacefully in spa-like conditions - central heating and room service on tap.
And you finish it all off as an orgasm.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Today's Quote

Going out to all the Billionaires, Plutocrats, and Oligarchs

“That which exists beyond measure,
will perish in evil beyond measure”