“What you need is sustained outrage…There’s far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”

- Molly Ivins

“Washing one’s hands of the conflicct between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful.”

- Paulo Freire

“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different lables attached.”

–Edward Sapir as quoted by Amy Tan in The Opposite of Fate

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

-Mary Roberts Rinehart

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

- John Lennon

When the deed is accomplished you retire;
Such is Heaven’s Way!

-Loa-tzu in Te-Tao Ching, Chapter 9

“…’Reality’ is nothing but an expression of the prevailing ideology.”

- John-Louis Comolli & Jean Narboni in “Cinéma/idéologie/critique”

Cahiers du Cinéma, October 1969.

“‘Reality’ is the only word in the English language which should always appear in quotes.”

-Joe Germuska

“First Law of Petropolitics: The price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions in states that are highly dependent on oil exports for their income and have weak institutions or outright authoritarian governments. And this is another reason that green has become geostrategic. Soaring oil prices are poisoning the international system by strengthening antidemocratic regimes around the globe.”

- From a NY Times article written by Thomas Friedman

“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”               - Chinese Proverb

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”

-Mel Brooks