Movie

"Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script."
--Tom Wolfe,
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

Memory II

"One day, you’ll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one."
--Author Unknown

Lost III

"I am free and that is why I am lost."
--Franz Kafka

Rainbow

I chased a rainbow
I caught up with it
It was filled with people
I stepped into the rainbow
I asked them "what are you doing"
They said
"Looking for the rainbow."

--Robert Blake, "Black Rainbow"

Arena

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt,
"Citizenship In A Republic" speech, April 23, 1910

Views II

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
--William F. Buckley Jr.

Reign

"Should the church be trying to erect a spiritual reign of terror over people by threatening earthly and eternal punishment on its own authority and commanding everything a person must believe and do to be saved? Should the church's word bring new tyranny and violent abuse to human souls? It may be that some people yearn for such servitude. But could the church ever serve such a longing?
  
When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience. In following Jesus, people are released from the hard yoke of their own laws to be under the gentle yoke of Jesus Christ. Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life."

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Discipleship (1937)
"Preface", as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss (2001).

Prophetic II

Huey: (narrating) I am not a prophet, but sometimes I have prophetic dreams, like the one where I was at a garden party.
   
Huey: Excuse me. Everyone, I have a brief announcement to make. Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the Devil, and the government is lying about 9/11. Thank you for your time and good night.
  
(The people suddenly erupt into a riot. Huey wakes up, and is immediately smacked by Granddad.)
   
Granddad: Mmm-hmm! You were havin' that dream where you made the white people riot, weren't you?
   
Huey: But I was telling the truth!
  
Granddad: How many times have I told you, you better not even dream about tellin' white folk the truth! You understand me? (walks away) Shoot! Makin' White people riot! You better learn how to lie like me! I'm gonna find me a white man and lie to him right now!

--"Boondocks", episode "The Garden Party" by Aaron McGruder

Awe

"Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved."
--Ram Dass

Something IV

"Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward."
--Issac Asimov,
"Foundation" (1951)

Noncooperation

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
--Martin Luther King Jr.,
"The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr."

Lose

"Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted"
--Charles Bukowski

Tools II

"When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers."
--William Kunstler

Sinking

"Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will."
--Chairman Mao,
Swimming advice to physician Zhisui Li (1966)

Next IV

"Next year’s going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all."
--Ray Bradbury,
"Dandelion Wine" (1957)

Trick III

"(About Ebola): The Africans are angry. They know this is a trick. The pitch got so high; they had to have some white folks get it to convince them. This was the trick. The question is, 'How come they get it, they come back to America and they’re cured in two weeks, but y’all tell US there’s no cure?'"
--Dick Gregory

Fundamentally

"There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result."
--Steve Forbes

Bad III

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."
--The Joker,
"Batman: The Killing Joke" by Alan Moore

Decrepit

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down."
--T.S. Eliot

Eye

"Look a pig in her eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon."
--Mango Wodzak

Chutzpah

"Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It’s the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he’s an orphan. The Bush administration’s updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that ‘we’re at war.'"
--William Blum (March 6, 1933 -  December 9, 2018)
"America's Deadliest Export"

Elbow

"And in 'Elbow Room' the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, 'There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny' Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal."
--Tim Wise,
"White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son"

Indispensable II

"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable."
--John F. Kennedy

Disproved

"Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of 'experts who made them up in the first place."
--John Lennon

Element

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
-- Edward Bernays

Fantastic II

"After Kennedy was killed, the CIA launched a fantastic cover-up. Many of the facts about Oswald unavoidably pointed to a Cuban connection.....In a chilling parallel to their cover-up at Watergate, the CIA literally erased any connection between Kennedy's assassination and the CIA."
--H.R. Haldeman,
"The Ends of Power"

Knew

"Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us."
--George H.W. Bush to Sarah McLendon on Iraqgate and Iran-Contra

Chain

"All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain."
--George S. Patton

Terrible

"In 1909 a factory inspector did an informal survey of 500 working children in 20 factories. She found that 412 of them would rather work in the terrible conditions of the factories than return to school.

In one experiment in Milwaukee, for example, 8,000 youth...were asked if they would return full-time to school if they were paid about the same wages as they earned at work; only 16 said they would."
--John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935, - October 25, 2018)
"The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling"