If indecisive, choose one of your top favorites. And by the holy powers bestowed unto me through the machinations of this platform, I grant thee to even post more than one, too!
“Give me the strength to change the things I can change. And the wisdom to recognize them.”
“Discussing anything with an IT nerd; you will come to realize its like wrestling with pigs in the mud. They like it.”
Friendship is when silence between two people is comfortable.
Big fan of
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”
- Garry Kasparov (2015)
That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.
There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.
I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”
But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”
Idk why but your last line made me think of that line from the offspring song, “when the truth walks away everybody stays because the truth about the world is that crime does pay”
Love these unveiling of manipulation tactics. Especially in a time where the narrative is usually focused on the face-value of disinformation/misinformation, or straight up lying when discovered.
Never pass up the opportunity to pee.
And
If a restaurant serves breakfast all day, that’s what you should order.
–My dad
Also,
Dont cheap out on anything that keeps you off the ground. (Tires, shoes, mattress etc)
“Never argue with an idiot because the best possible outcome is that you’ll win an argument with an idiot”
I also like “there are some things in life you can’t change, so you shouldn’t worry about them, and there are some things in life you can change, so you shouldn’t worry about them”
“A Splendid Torch” by George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
This one speaks directly to me: “The only decision you should make while angry is to stop being angry.” ~ Timothy Zahn, the Icarus series.
“You can make anything idiot proof, the world will just make a bigger idiot”
Mine is “Make something idiot proof and they build a better idiot”
“People, what a bunch of bastards”.
- Roy from the IT Crowd.
People are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
- Dr. Kelso from Scrubs (original series)
Never make yourself a priority to someone that treats you like an option.
That’s a round down range, can’t pull it back
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
Might not agree with Lenin on everything but this one is right on spot.
Oh, my second favorite quote is also from him I had no idea
“One cannot live in society and be free from society.”
“Sometimes, at the end of a sentence, I come out with completely the wrong fusebox. The problem with using the wrong words is a. that I don’t always notice, and b. orange water gibbon bucket of plaster.”
I think of this often and have to say we can all learn something from it.
[Note to add: it’s a throwaway line from Monty Python sketch. Second note to add: TheWrongFusebox was my reddit username for 15 or so years.]
What’s your takeaway from this lizard?
The main thing, I’d say, I’ve learned from this insight is sky flopping gurney fetlocks.
A couple from a co-worker:
If you don’t have time to do it correctly now, what makes you think you will have time to fix it later.
Remember, you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
And a couple from my grandmother:
Don’t study drunk, but if you do at least be a little tipsy when you take the test.
Don’t do anything to your car to make it stand it to the police.
Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. the goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.
- St John Chrysostom
The demands of justice must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to be offered as a gift of charity.
- Second Council of the Vatican
When we attend to the needs of those in want, we give them what is theirs, not ours. More than performing works of mercy, we are paying a debt of justice.
- Pope St Gregory
Three quotes referenced in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and just one example of the dissonance between many “Christians” in the U.S. and the faith they purport to follow.
If that doesn’t get them, the fact that the concept of social justice, as in the actual coining of the term as well as the movement against capitalist exploitation brought on by the Industrial Revolution was by the Catholics does lol
The meaning behind it all is very simple, we’re all in this together, and the gifts given to us by God/nature belong to all of us. They’re not for us to hoard, or to exploit others for.
