Title | Body | Author | Subject |
---|---|---|---|
Quote 91 | "...dumber than taking a five year-old to a strip club (and forgetting to instruct him not to tell Mom)." |
Unknown | Intelligence |
Quote 75 | "Often wrong, but never in doubt." |
Unknown | Insults |
Quote 40 | "If I wanted to listen to an asshole I'd fart" |
Unknown | Insults |
Quote 16 | "Mutton dressed up like Lamb." |
Unknown | Insults |
Quote 13 | "...I think of him kindly, when I think of him at all." |
Unknown | Insults |
Quote 33 | "... he's a very high-minded humanitarian type who's traveled all around the world to look at poor people, and while the two of them are lounging around one of her gorgeous houses he gets wrought up and says, 'Ellen, Ellen, do you know what it is to be truly hungry:' and she says, 'I'm hungry right now!" --Movie - Leave Her To Heaven |
Unknown | Hubris |
Quote 49 | "When the Catholic Church decided that adultery was impossible to stop, it made divorce impossible to obtain" |
Unknown | History, Politics, Religion |
Quote 59 | "History isn't written to reveal the truth. It is written to flatter power and instruct the masses." There is what really happened. That is lost forever. There is what is recorded in contemporary chronicles. That is the reality of those who lived through it. And, there is the history that is taught in schools. That is the history that is acceptable to those in power." |
Unknown | History |
Quote 53 | "Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will the white man realize that money cannot be eaten." |
Unknown | Environment |
Quote 207 | "In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often misunderstood: the principal way [money is created] is through commercial banks making loans. Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower's bank account, thereby creating new money." — Bank of England ("Money creation in the modern economy") |
Unknown | Economy, Politics |
Quote 37 | Colonize: To exterminate the indigenous population with a combination of prayers and smallpox and then plunder the natural resources. |
Unknown | Definitions, Environment, Politics |
Quote 41 | "We can always hire another miner, we gott'a buy another mule." --Coal company foreman explaining why the coal companies always more concerned about the welfare of their mules than their miners. (This also explains why Capitalism is more profitable than slavery. Slaves were even more expensive than mules.) |
Unknown | Capitalism |
Quote 113 | "Socialism doesn't mean taking wealth from those who work hard and give it to those who don't. You're thinking of Capitalism." |
Unknown | Capitalism |
Quote 39 | "May the good lord take a like'n to ya." --Old Southern blessing |
Unknown | Blessing |
Quote 206 | "He was a man of many ideals and no principals." |
Unknown | America, Hubris, Politics |
Quote 45 | "What the Iron Maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee is to the wise; less messy, considerably more efficient, and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the Iron Maiden." |
Unknown | America, Advice, Hubris |
Quote 201 | "No snake is more venomous than privilege once challenged." |
Unknown | Advice, Politics, Power |
Quote 17 | "The absent are always wrong." |
Unknown | Advice, Politics |
Quote 65 | "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment." |
Unknown | Advice, Intelligence |
Quote 203 | "May you live in interesting times." "May you come to the attention of someone in authority." "May you find what you are looking for." -- Traditional Chinese curse |
Unknown | Advice, Curse |
Quote 99 | "Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe," |
Unknown | Advice |
Quote 95 | "Handle every Stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, Pee on it and walk away." |
Unknown | Advice |
Quote 9 | "You cannot reorganize village life to suit the village idiot." | Unknown | Advice |
Quote 67 | "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around." |
Unknown | Advice |
Quote 63 | "Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none." | Unknown | Advice |
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