QUOT'IN

• 2009-08-10

  Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

  — Friedrich Nietzsche

• 2009-08-07

  When life’s knocked us around. And our childhood myths reveal themselves to be just that. The truth feels like the biggest sucker-punch of them all: it’s not a spouse or land or a job or money that brings us happiness. Those achievements, those relationships, can enhance our happiness, yes, but happiness has to start from within. Relying on any other equation can be lethal.

  — Laura A. Munson

• 2008-09-07

  There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

  — David Simon

• 2008-06-25

  

  Might be late to the party with it, but this pic is a whole lot of awesome.

• 2008-03-30

  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.

  — Henry David Thoreau, Walden

• 2008-03-17

  “Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.”

  Man bursts into tears. Says, “But Doctor… I am Pagliacci.”

  — Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, The Watchmen

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

• 2008-03-09

  Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  — Antoine de Saint Exupery

• 2008-03-06

  If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun’s manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.

  — Creators of “The Wire”

• 2008-03-01

  i back the custom domains bigtime: http://tumblr.filberts.net/