~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945]
found text for t-shirt: limited offer. get tickets now.
"I woke up still not dead again today"
~~ song lyric by musician Willie Nelson [b. 1933]
"Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery."
~~ George Orwell [1903-50]
"The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there."
~~ mmusician K.D. Lang
found text for t-shirt: keep out of reach of children
"You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting."
~~ Richard P. Feynman [1918-88]
"Speaking of the narcissistic man-child . . ."
~~ Teresa Hanafin, Boston Globe staff writer
"I don't care how good your good ol' days was for you, they're not good enough for me."
~~ folk music legend Woody Guthrie [1912-67]
"The good old days / are being made / right now"
~~ lyric from radio ads for Blue Bell Ice Cream [est. 1907] of Brenham, Washington County, Texas
"Love is easy; getting laid is the tough one."
~~ philosopher G.E. Nordell
"The Only Free Cheese Is In The Trap."
~~ saying in Ukraine
"Donald Trump’s worst enemy is the truth."
~~ internet meme 7/2025
"If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn’t seen before."
~~ Robert Wilson [1941-2025], co-writer of the visionary five-hour opera “Einstein On The Beach”
"People seek faith, and faith, by its nature, demands the embrace of what reason resists."
~~ Adam Gopnik
"Trump is engaged in a broad assault on truth, but truth has ways of fighting back."
~~ David A. Graham, staff writer, The Atlantic Daily newsletter
"the highway goes on forever . . ."
~~ country song lyric
"Policy changes, but facts endure."
~~ motto of The Associated Press [est. 1846]
"[The city of Chicago is] like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real."
~~ Nelson Algren [1909-81]
"Heck, everyone knows that it's not entertainment unless you can sit in the dark and eat."
~~ "Calvin & Hobbes" daily cartoon [1985-95] for 6/30/??
"Civilization exists by geological consent - subject to change without notice."
~~ Will Durant [1885-1981]
"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."
~~ poet Thomas Stearns 'T.S.' Eliot [1888-1965]
"In this time, in this world, we are inundated with images of endless pleasures ... entertainment is our highest calling."
~~ off-gridder Tara Couture, in "I Work For A Big Life - Not Big Dollars"
"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people."
~~ folk music legend Woody Guthrie [1912-67]
"Public toilets are like lawyers - everyone hates them until they need one."
~~ Dave Lozo, writer at Morning Brew News
"People who avoid failure also avoid success."
~~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
"In every child there is an artist. The problem is knowing how to stay an artist while growing up."
~~ artist Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]
"I'm no doctor, but your results are in: You just tested positive for bullsh*t."
~~ late night TV host Stephen Colbert
"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."
~~ English writer D.H. Lawrence [1885-1930], in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" [1928]
"Trump wants a populace unaware of the [Afro-American] freedom struggle — because it is a guide for defeating his fascist plans."
~~ Jesse Hagopian, writer at Truthout [est. 2001]
"I can't believe what you say because I see what you do."
~~ James Baldwin [1924-87]
"If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage."
~~ Chinese philosopher Confucius / Kong Qiu [551-479 BCE]
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
~~ Tommy Smothers [1937-2023], of The Smothers Brothers comedy team
"Satire is the weapon of the powerless against the powerfu."
~~ journalist & columnist Molly Ivins [1944-2007]
"It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
~~ standup comedian George Carlin [1937-2008]
"Power without accountability is the ideal breeding ground for jokes."
~~ John Cleese, member of "Monty Python"
"Hatred doesn’t heal. Rage doesn’t rescue. Blame doesn’t make it better."
~~ Cheryl Hunter
"We need to stop trusting the experts."
~~ wacko fascist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [b. 1954]
"Any one who uses more than two chords is just showing off."
~~ folk music legend Woody Guthrie [1912-67]
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
~~ Arundhati Roy
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."
~~ Edward R. Murrow [1908-65]
"I know and I do not approve but I am not resigned."
~~ poet Edna St. Vincent Millay [1892-1950]
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer [1906-45]
"When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it."
~~ moivie director Guillermo del Toro
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
~~ primatologist Dame Jane Goodall [1934-2025]
"The brain is wider than the sky."
~~ poet poet Emily Dickinson [1830-86]
"We are here and it is now. Beyond that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
~~ H.L. Mencken [1880-1956]
"The America I love, a beacon of hope and liberty, is in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration."
~~ Bruce Springsteen
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
