That may well be but , it’s better than the alternative……..
LE BARON
Power User
Pity the nation...
BY LAWRANCE. FERLINGHETTI (2007)
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airways
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
but aims to rule the world
by force and by torture
And knows
No other language but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation Oh pity the people of my country
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
BY LAWRANCE. FERLINGHETTI (2007)
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airways
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
but aims to rule the world
by force and by torture
And knows
No other language but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation Oh pity the people of my country
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
LE BARON
Power User
LE BARON
Power User
LE BARON
Power User
LE BARON
Power User
Anyone you can think of? Good thing McDo came along!
LE BARON
Power User
"If you wish to persuade people that because Adam ate an apple, all who have never heard of this interesting occurrence will be roasted in an everlasting fire by a benevolent Deity, you must catch them young, make them stupid by means of drink or drugs, and carefully isolate them from all contact with books or companions capable of making them think."
~Bertrand Russell
~Bertrand Russell
LE BARON
Power User
“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone.
And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way…”
~Charlie Chaplin
Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone.
And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way…”
~Charlie Chaplin
LE BARON
Power User
“…The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish...”
~Charlie Chaplin
~Charlie Chaplin
LE BARON
Power User
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”
~C. S. Lewis
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”
~C. S. Lewis
LE BARON
Power User
“I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
Real religion is in your mind and your heart and can't be judged by the number of times you go to church."
~Judy Garland,
Real religion is in your mind and your heart and can't be judged by the number of times you go to church."
~Judy Garland,
Only 4 years to go……
Only a couple of months to go……..
But he had good hair and lots of socks…..
LE BARON
Power User
"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror.
Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
~Rod Serling
Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
~Rod Serling
LE BARON
Power User
"Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry."
~Rod Serling
~Rod Serling
LE BARON
Power User
I kept the faith, and I kept voting. Not for the iron fist, but for the helping hand. For theirs is a land with a wall around it, and mine is a faith in my fellow man…”
~Billy Bragg
~Billy Bragg
LE BARON
Power User
“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause; he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”
~Rod Serling
~Rod Serling
LE BARON
Power User
"It is hard for me to understand a culture that not only hates and fights his brothers, but even attacks Nature and abuses her. Man must love all creation or he will love none of it. Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. Without love our self esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails.
Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. Instead we turn inwardly and begin to feed upon our own personalities and little by little we destroy ourselves."
~Chief Dan George
Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. Instead we turn inwardly and begin to feed upon our own personalities and little by little we destroy ourselves."
~Chief Dan George