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REMEMBER MY FRIENDS !
Hell lies to me!
When I listen to the radio more than my heart.
Hell lies to me!
When instead of doves I see crows.
Hell lies to me!
When my reality is no longer woven by me,
And I have traded my love for fear.
@laurentvitureau
#poesie #poème #poetry #artofwords #words #mots #quotes #creativite #sagesse #wisdomquotes #love #amour #lucidité #revolution #apocalypse
“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...”
Poor, poor Gym Jordan.
♲ Today's Top Quotes ✅ - 2024-05-10 02:09:23 GMT
After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s doomed referendum on Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership, a growing number of her #GOP colleagues are pushing bigger consequences for her and other rebels. Those Republicans are proposing to build specific #punishments into conference rules that would be triggered if hardliners keep breaking ranks against leadership. #Sanctions getting floated include arming the entire conference with the ability to force a vote on yanking their committees or even ejecting them from the conference altogether. The same consequences may also be on the table for Republicans who vote to block GOP bills from even getting to the floor - a once-rare show of discontent that has become increasingly popular on the House’s right flank — Jordain Carney #quotes #quote #HouseRepublicans
Such a movement worships an impotent God. They're always having to do his dirty work for him.
♲ Today's Top Quotes ✅ - 2024-05-09 18:46:19 GMT
Beware of any Christian movement that insists it has so many enemies to conquer rather than so many neighbors to love — Rev. Benjamin Cremer #quotes #quote #Christianity #Power #Christian
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Philosophy for Laymen,” Universities Quarterly (1946-11)
#quote #quotes #quotation #certainty #error #humannature #intellect #vice
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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward’s argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool’s paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Is There a God?” (1952)
#quote #quotes #quotation #consolation #truth #belief #evidence #religion
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There's never a Due Process conservative around when ya need one.
♲ Great Quotes ✅ - 2024-05-01 21:20:06 GMT
When Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Donald Trump’s lawyer, “If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or orders someone to #assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get #immunity?”, he replied, “It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that would well be an official act.” Based on that one line of questioning, Trump’s argument should be going down in flames 9-0. A democracy cannot survive when its supreme leader can arbitrarily decide that it’s in the nation’s best interest to rub out his opponents, and then leave it to some future court to decide whether it was an official act, because he’ll get away with it as long as there aren’t 67 votes in the Senate to impeach. And given that it will have been established that the president can put out a contract on political foes, how many senators are going to vote to impeach? — Brynn Tannehill #quotes #quote #Trump #OfficialActs
A quotation from Le Guin, Ursula
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
The Left Hand of Darkness, ch. 8 (1969)
#quote #quotes #quotation #civilization #primitiveness #war
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A quotation from Herrick, Robert
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“To the Virgins to Make Much of Time,” Hesperides, # 208 (1648)
#quote #quotes #quotation #beauty #carpediem #marchoftime #mortality #passageoftime #seizetheday #youth
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With one hand we say to one who is angry, or to an oppressor, or to an unjust system, “Stop what you are doing. I refuse to honor the role you are choosing to play, I refuse to obey you. I refuse to cooperate with your demands. I refuse to build the walls and the bombs. I refuse to pay for the guns. With this hand I will even interfere with the wrong you are doing. I want to disrupt the easy pattern of your life.”
But then the advocate of nonviolence lowers the other hand. It is lowered outstretched—maybe with love and sympathy, maybe not — but always outstretched. [...] With this hand we say, “I won’t let go of you or cast you out of the human race. I have faith that you can make a better choice than you are making now, and I’ll be here when you are ready. Like it or not, we are part of one another.”
--- Barbara Deming, On Revolution and Equilibrium
The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in himself, and to develop in him the striving toward truth; it is to fight meanness in people, to learn how to find the good in them, to awake in their souls shame, anger, courage; to do all in order that man should become nobly strong.
--- Maxim Gorky
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
However that may be, it is always disastrous when governments set to work to uphold opinions for their utility rather than for their truth. As soon as this is done it becomes necessary to have a censorship to suppress adverse arguments, and it is thought wise to discourage thinking among the young for fear of encouraging “dangerous thoughts.” When such mal-practices are employed against religion as they are in Soviet Russia, the theologians can see that they are bad, but they are still bad when employed in defence of what the theologians think good. Freedom of thought and the habit of giving weight to evidence are matters of far greater moral import than the belief in this or that theological dogma. On all these grounds it cannot be maintained that theological beliefs should be upheld for their usefulness without regard to their truth.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Is There a God?” (1952)
#quote #quotes #quotation #censorship #truth #utility #ideology
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A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose
EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Edible,” The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
#quote #quotes #quotation #circleoflife #consumption #death #edible #life #predation
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The Doctor would have called this a "fixed point in time". The choice has been made and how time proceeds past this point is dependent on it.
♲ Great Quotes ✅ - 2024-04-21 22:49:52 GMT
The vote to help arm #Ukraine will likely go down as a hinge in history, a moment when freedom and decency triumphed over tyranny and evil. In that moment, the majority of #Republicans voted against freedom and decency. Never forget. Never forgive. Hold them #accountable — Stuart Stevens #quotes #quote #Vote
Then again, Marge the Barge is always angry. If she doesn't have an excuse-du-jour, she'll think of one.
♲ Great Quotes ✅ - 2024-04-21 02:06:30 GMT
#MAGA #MTG is angry that Congress is not addressing our border problems after she voted against addressing our border problems — @SNerd #quotes #quote #MoscowMarge #UsefulIdiot #RussianAsset #WillingDupe #Compromised #ObstructionistCaucus #Isolationist
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Guards! Guards! (1989)
#quote #quotes #quotation #cynicism #life #reallife #realworld #reality
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A quotation from Franklin, Ben
He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1734 ed.)
#quote #quotes #quotation #expectations #fate #fortune #presumption #security #waiting #inaction #passivity
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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Equal Rites [Granny Weatherwax] (1987)
#quote #quotes #quotation #danger #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning
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