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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-07-2025
“A person of good intellignce & sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality – it's not just a bleeding heart, knee jerk, liberal kind of thing – it's just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavoured dental floss & there are people sleeping in the street.”
George Carlin
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life & found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
P. G. Wodehouse
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-07-2025
“It fascinates me that g
iving to charities is considered noble & praiseworthy, but creating a society that doesn't require charity is considered socialist & bad.”
Anon
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-07-2025
“A society that produces billionaires whilemillioms go hungry isn't successful; its broken. I don't think we should have billionaires. Full stop.”
Zohran Mamdani
“Medicare for all. -”That's socialism!”
Social security. - “That's socialism!”
Debt free education. “That's socialism!”
Universal child care. “That's socialism!”
$1trillion + in tax cuts for the wealthy...
“That's just how it is.”
Robert Reich
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-07-2025
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
FDR
“The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.”
Leo Tolstoy
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-07-2025
“You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.”
Bob Marley
“Every tyrant fears a thinker.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-07-2025
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security & indepence. People who are hungry & out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
FDR
“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”
Barbara Kingsolver
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-07-2025
“If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees.
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children.”
Confucious
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-07-2025
“Give people what they need: food,medicine,clean air, pure water, trees & grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human deserves it.”
Howard Zinn
“For reading addicts. Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery & many kinds of slavery, & many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
Carl Sagan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 17-07-2025
“The problem isn't a lack of money, food,water or land.The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psycopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping human kind.”
Bill Hicks
“Your religion assumes that people are chidren & need a bogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in god so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force , & the threat of punishment by an all-seeing god for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.”
Carl Sagan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-07-2025
“My darling girl, when are you going to realise that being 'normal' isn't necessarily a virtue? It sometimes denotes a lack of courage.”
Aunt Frances
“If more & more wealth can be accumulated & provided to heirs without ever paying any taxes, then we are on the way to a permanent aristocracy in America.”
Robert Reich, Death & taxes.