It's A Quote

[Ivan Denisovich]

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx.

[Nanny]

"I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store
Laying tackless stripping and housewives by the score
I loaded up their furniture and took it to Spokane
Auctioned off every last Naugahyde divan
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in
I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth
I'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross"

- Warren Zevon

[Gwaithmir]

"September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn." (Rowland E. Robinson) 

[Angrboda]

"5G makes your boobs small."

Desi Lydic

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.’ - Sir Terry Pratchett

Boru

[Gwaithmir]

“Like most English people I’m not a great believer. I’ve read Richard Dawkins’ book and it’s very persuasive. I’m more in awe of the universe and that’s not really a belief in God...Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all...Dying for an idea, like religion, is absurd.” (Mick Jagger) 

[Angrboda]

“The more you think about what happens in the United States, the more you feel persuaded that in this country the body of jurists forms the most powerful and, so to speak, the sole counterweight of democracy.” Even though all literate Americans could read and understand their Constitution, American judges treated the document as inscrutable to all but themselves. Like “the priests of Egypt,” they considered themselves “the sole interpreter of an occult science.”

Alexis de Tocqueville


“If the policy of the Government upon vital questions ... is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers”

Abraham Lincoln

[Angrboda]

"Seriously, though, fuck that guy."

Jon Stewart on Dick Cheney's endorsement of Kamala Harris

[Fake Messiah]

In medieval Europe, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on interpretation of the Bible. You have The Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus talks about love and compassion, and if somebody slaps you, you should turn the other cheek, and so forth. Then, you have medieval commentators explaining how this actually means that we should persecute heretics and burn them at the stake. They really do it, although burning people alive is obviously not turning the other cheek, but they find an interpretation that they are saving them in this way from the flames of Hell. So this is actually doing them a favor and being compassionate to all of the other people who might have been affected by their heretical views.

Yuval Noah Harari

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Genius is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration, and 2% attention to detail.’ - Thomas Edison

Boru