Frenzied

"Yes; truth blends well with untruth. It is one of the maladies of our age, a sign of sheer nervousness, to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."
--Norman Douglas
(1868-1952) British writer
Source: "Alone" (1921)

Career

"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them."
--Auberon Herbert
(1838-1906)
English writer, theorist, philosopher, 19th century individualist, member of the Parliament of the U.K.

Circumference

"He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge, prescribes the circumference of your activities."
--Louis Farrakhan

Malformed

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes."
--Douglas Adams,
"Life, the Universe and Everything"

Final

When your mother has grown old
and with her so have you,
When that which once came easy
has at last become a burden,
When her loving, true eyes
no longer see life as once they did
When her weary feet
no longer want to wear her as she stands,
then reach an arm to her shoulder,
escort her gently, with happiness and passion
The hour will come, when you, crying,
must take her on her final walk.
And if she asks you, then give her an answer
And if she asks you again, listen!
And if she asks you again, take in her words
not impetuously, but gently and in peace!
And if she cannot quite understand you,
explain all to her gladly
For the hour will come, the bitter hour
when her mouth will ask for nothing more.

--Adolf Hitler, "Denk' es!" (Be Reminded!) 1923

Washing

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
--Pablo Picasso

Spectators II

"The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators."
--Francois Guizot

Degenerates II

"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
--Lord Acton
 [John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902),
First Baron Acton of Aldenham
Source: Letter, January 23, 1861

Gangster

"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
--Major General Smedley Butler

Road II

"I'm on this road for the rest of my life."
--Dennis Banks
(1938-2017)

Stuff

"Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
--Ray Bradbury,
"Fahrenheit 451"

On The Occasion Of 4/20

Horrors!  People enjoying a plant!  What demonic force created plants?  Plants that can be used to alleviate pain, eye problems, stress, "mental illness", and other health problems.

Meanwhile, PharmaDoctors inject defenseless children with drugs containing aluminum, mercury, MSG, and other poisons, clearly crimes against humanity by any rational standard, and yet "law enforcement" does absolutely nothing to stop it.  People labeled to have "mental illness" are forced to take mind-rotting Psych Drugs just like in the gulags of the old Soviet Union.

Clearly the drug companies have people with guns to protect their interests, but people with health challenges, and children who do not want to be maimed for life, do not.

TLC

Geniuses II

"The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about."
--B.F. Skinner,
"Walden Two"

Smoking

"I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, 'Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great'  He goes, 'What? I'm 28.'"
--Bill Hicks

Decree

"The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' "
--Ronald Reagan

Contributing

"In this civilization, children are trained to grow up contributing to the overall acceptance of deceptive narratives."
--Jon Rappoport

Compulsion

"A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people -- and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools."
--John Taylor Gatto,
"The Exhausted School: Bending The Bars Of Traditional Education"

Distracted

"Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols."
--Tom Wolfe,
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

Madness IV

"So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit."
--The Joker
(Alan Moore, "Batman: The Killing Joke")

Laugh II

"We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different."
--David Icke

Punish

"If I have worked harder and built myself a good house while you have been content to live in a hovel, the tax gatherer now comes annually to make me pay a penalty for my energy and industry by taxing me more than you. If I have saved while you wasted, I am [taxed] while you are exempt. If a man built a ship, we make him pay for his temerity as though he had done injury to the state; if a railroad be opened, down comes the tax collector upon it as though were a public nuisance.... We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp. To abolish these taxes would be to lift the whole enormous weight of taxation from productive industry.... The state would say to the producer, 'Be as industrious, as thrifty, as enterprising as you choose. You shall have your full reward!' "
--Henry George
(1839-1897) American political economist
Source: Progress And Poverty (1879)

Ends IV

"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
--John Maynard Keynes,
Letter to Duncan Grant (December 15, 1917)

Discharging

"But this should serve as a reminder to brides of the importance of discouraging reception guests from discharging their firearms unless they have a good reason, such as the band vocalist attempting to perform "I Will Always Love You" in the official Whitney Houston Diarrhea of the Vowels version ("And IIIIIIeeeeeIIIIIIIII, will alwaaaaays love yoooooeeeeeeeooooooouuuuueeeeeeeeeoooooo" BANG)"
--Dave Barry,
Column, The Miami Herald, April 2, 2004

Experience IV

"Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house.  It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."
--Aldous Huxley

Cave

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.

Where you stumble,
there lies your treasure.

The very cave you are afraid to enter
turns out to be the source of   
what you are looking for.   

The damned thing in the cave   

that was so dreaded   
has become the center.

You find the jewel,
and it draws you off.

In loving the spiritual,
you cannot despise the earthly.

--Joseph Campbell

Shrunken

"On this shrunken globe men can no longer live as strangers. Men can war against each other as hostile neighbors, as we are determined not to do; or they can co-exist in frigid isolation, as we are doing. But our prayer is that men everywhere will learn, finally, to live as brothers, to respect each other's differences, to heal each other's wounds, to promote each other's progress, and to benefit from each other's knowledge."
--Adlai Stevenson, II

Patience V

"One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on."
--The Dalai Lama

Short III

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."
--James Madison

Yoke

"Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong."
--Gerry Spence

Merchandising

"The '60s was really stupid...  It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time."
--Frank Zappa,
"The MOFO Project/Object" (2006),
"My Pet Theory" on the second disc of the twin CD version

Nutty

"It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life."
--John Holt (1923-1985),
"How Children Learn"