Can I make one up?

I'm gonna anyway.

I've decided to becoma an ignoranus.
In the future I will endeavour to ignore arseholes.

Of course! ~

Sooz

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar."
~ Molly Ivins

wonderful quote, sooz. love Twain. a great American socialist.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

I love imagining what our world could be if people lived by this simple principle ~ Sooz

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, July 12, 1816

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)



***request for this thread to be stickied. Tired of hunting it and the damn search won't work.

Thank you!

I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. -Karl Popper

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (b. 1950)

A few from "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce. It's fun to read. Link at the end.

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm

Wouldn't he have a hoot in today's world? I didn't know anything about him before today.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L.Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

GREAT quote, roseanne ~ might save time and blood pressure spikes to keep this one handy to use as a reply to "some" in "some" places ~

Sooz

Yes, of course! I will save it for a "special" time, for that "special' person.