"Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren’t human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty?" – Ursula K. Le Guin #quotes

“We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”
― Derrick Bell

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
― Thomas Sowell

On my blog: Toots from 03/10 to 03/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/14/week.html
This week, we have memory, empathy in STEM, economic blackout, Medicaid, executions, Firefox, and Women's History.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

The trouble has been that society has neglected its members.

Pauline Newman

“It was a sad and disappointing day when I found out that my universal remote control did not, in fact, control the Universe. Not even remotely.” — Memes by Sam

Painting by Carolus Duran (1837-1917)

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.”

― Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet (1933) #quotes

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Julia Ward Howe

We must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take-just that and no more.

Rose Schneiderman

“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.”
― Toni Morrison

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Take pen and paper, and scribble words so utterly moving that whosoever reads them believes that the world is shaking and that, somewhere, mountains are crumbling.” ― Jack Kerouac #quotes #poetry

“There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.” ― Truman Capote, The Thanksgiving Visitor #quotes

Let us develop our powers by thinking and acting for ourselves. That is the way we grow. We have been told organization is necessary to bring about results. We have been scattered to the four winds. Are we going to organize?

Zitkala-Ša

“You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila