…you can’t believe you’re the slave to this body, this big baby. You have to keep it fed and put it to bed and take it to the bathroom. You can’t believe we haven’t invented something better. Something not so needy. Not so time-consuming.
You realize that people take drugs because it’s the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.
It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
I am outraged whenever we are asked to thank the troops. There is no skill in blindly following orders. Bravery is pushing new frontiers; setting unbelievable limits. Astronauts and scientists and educators… these are the ones deserving of our eternal gratitude.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life
— Winston Churchill
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
— orson scott card
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
— Gary Snyder
People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street. Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US. The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a Republican version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies… When we were promised change, we weren’t thinking that we give a dollar and get back two cents.
— Dennis Kucinich