Over and Over (Redux)

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

--George W. Bush (May 24, 2005)

Over and Over

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

--Adolph Hitler (Mein Kampf)

Promiscuous

The disgusting is marvelously promiscuous and ubiquitous.

--William Ian Miller

Different Hopes

It seemed desperately important to seek out societies that held out different kinds of hopes, that weren't beholden to technology, yet also weren't rebelling against it.

--Lucette Lagnado

Ooops...Wrong!

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

--Groucho Marx

Actions Speak

Action is character.

--F. Scott Fitzgerald

World of Speech

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

--George Eliot

You Are Responsible

To be moral requires that one accept full responsibility for oneself.

--Timothy Shortell

The Situation

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

--Jean Rostand

The Liverpudlian Bike Boy

As a kid I had a dream--I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike, I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe in the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bikes in the back yard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night kept it by my bed.

--John Lennon

Silence...Better?

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

--Thomas Carlyle

It Continues

All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.

--Elizabeth Bishop

Deep Within

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some other external form.

--Eckhart Tolle

The Daily Bearings

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

--John Updike

So Much

I'd never had so much pleasure being with another human being. I wanted him to enjoy me too. It was that simple.

--Anne Bancroft

Remember

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

--Elie Wiesel

Impertinent Authorities

Governors and Presidents should not issue religious proclamations. They should not call upon the people to thank god. It is no part of their official duty. It is outside and beyond the horizon of their authority. There is nothing in the Constitution to justify this religious impertinence.

--Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)

Unsound Schemes

My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

--Abraham Lincoln (1862)

Prop Up Beliefs

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

--Carl Sagan

Humans? Nuts!

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

--John Steinbeck

Dread

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

--John Howe

Hidden Answers

If we wish to understand the nature of reality, we have an inner hidden advantage: we are ourselves a little portion of the universe and so carry the answer within us.

--Jacques Boivin