"Hard to say which is the worst infection: the Trump coronavirus or endemic stupidity."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"The point is not to wish for these adversities, but for the virtue that makes adversities bearable."
~~ Seneca the Younger [4? B.C.E. - 65 A.D.]
“Cruelty is not wit.”
~~ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
'found' t-shirt text: no artificial preservatives
"God is easy to please but hard to satisfy."
~~ British author C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts . . . For support rather than illumination."
~~ Andrew Lang [1844-1912]
"Rape and pillage and pollution is all that these fascist Republicans know."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"Sarcasm and reality have become one."
~~ cartoonist Scott Adams (in the "Dilbert" comic strip, 2020)
"Remember kid: With great power comes zero accountability."
~~ cartoonist Dan Piraro (in the "Bizarro" daily panel, 1/2020)
"One of the primary roots of wealth inequality: the richest Americans get to live by a different set of rules than everyone else."
~~ Tom Steyer, op-ed in USA Today in October 2018
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is in fact no liberty without it."
~~ reformer Frances Wright [1795-1852]
"Unexplained joy is always so keen that . . . it seems to hold enought to reconcile one to the inevitable."
~~ Jessie Benton Frémont [1824-1902]
"No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars."
~~ Congresswoman Alexandria 'A.O.C.' Ocasio-Cortez [Dem NY-14]
"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."
~~ Irish Proverb
"The many, many fascist trolls on Facebook and elsewhere epitomize ignorance & stupidity. Education will fix that: the purpose of true education is to make the population more and more progressive (which is why Republicans are opposed to education). But first these trolls have to give up being hate-mongers."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"The federal budget deficit will hit $1.02 trillion this year, and it's shameful that the next Democratic president let this happen."
~~ Teresa Hanafin, Boston Globe staff writer {sarcasm 1/2020}
"States are not great except as men may make them; men are not great, except they do and dare."
~~ Eugene Fitch Ware [1841-1911]
"The next pandemic is coming. We’re not prepared for it."
~~ Washington Post article headline
"We can't expect the world to get better by itself."
~~ television journalist Gwen Ifill [1955-2016]
"Republicans are essentially 14 year olds."
~~ Kritter Metimbers, on Facebook
"All glory comes from daring to begin."
~~ Eugene Fitch Ware [1841-1911]
"[Donald Trump] shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech."
~~ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
"Nancy Pelosi has nine grandchildren, so she knows exactly how to deal with somebody like Donald Trump."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"There are none so blind as those who watch the Fox Faux News Propaganda Channel."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
~~ Chicago columnist Sydney J. Harris [1917-86]
"He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"The purpose of life is eating donuts."
~~ cartoonist Stephan Pastis (in the "Pearls Before Swine" daily strip, 3/2020)
"One big problem these days is that so many former Americans, now fascist Trumpies, are suffering from stage four Limp Rushbaugh."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"This Administration is out of control."
~~ Congresswoman Deb Haaland [Dem NM-01]
"In coming months, the place [that] one would be most likely to be infected with the coronavirus will be one of Trump's own Make America Sick Again campaign rallies."
~~ the team at The People's Email Network [est. 2004]
“No. I don’t take responsibility at all.”
~~ Emperor Trump, March 2020
"If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present."
~~ Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu [IVth Century B.C.E.]
"We are always as safe as the least-insured person in America."
~~ Sen. Bernie Sanders, 13 March 2020
"A mentor in broadcast journalism once told me, 'To find the real story, sometimes you have to turn your back on the fire, and look around'.”
~~ Eric Pearson, president/CEO, El Paso [TX] Community Foundation
"Everyone's a socialist in a pandemic."
~~ journalist Farhad Manjoo
"We tried to find some non-coronavirus news, honest we did."
~~ MovieMaker Magazine [est. 1993] email newsletter, 13 March 2020
"Quality is not an [action], it is a habit."
~~ Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
"You think [that] a life is built of dreams when, really, a life is made up of daily to-do lists."
~~ novelist Susan Henderson
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
~~ Groucho Marx [1890-1977]
"The older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time."
~~ fashion designer Michael Kors
"You cannot teach anything to a person who knows it all."
~~ Zeno of Citium [334?-262? B.C.E.]
excited ten-year-old schoolchild in America: "We don't have to worry about getting shot at school for three weeks!"
"If I start to hear of chocolate shortages, I have no problem hoarding."
~~ Teresa Hanafin, Boston Globe staff writer
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'."
~~ Chicago columnist Sydney J. Harris [1917-86]
"Je divague fort, j'y retourne (I ramble hard, I'm going back)."
~~ essayist (Michel Eyquem de) Montaigne [1533-92]
"Stupidity is not the lack of knowledge, it is the illusion of having it."
~~ Grigore Lilian
"A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass."
~~ George Washington [1732-99]
"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."
~~ Anthony de Mello [1931-87]
"To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through – that is to be a nurse."
~~ Rawsi Williams
"Some of the stuff going on in the world is only there to put a smile on your face, there's no other reasonable explanation for it."
~~ folksinger Arlo Guthrie, in 2010
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
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