"The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer."

and

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years.  Death hangs over you.  While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

Marcus Aurelius

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Arthur 'Bugs' Baer

"Mimi? I not just like you. I love you."

                                        ...my nephew Jack, when he was three.

"Mere life is not a Victory. Mere Death is not a Defeat."          ——           Klingon Proverb.

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked; it has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." —Franz Kafka

 romeotuma wrote: 
And yet, there is no dearth of chains

"The arts cannot thrive except where men are free to be themselves and to be in charge of the disciplines of their own energies and ardors. The conditions for democracy and for art are one and the same. What we call liberty in politics results in freedom of the arts. There can be no vitality in the works gathered in museums unless there exists the right of spontaneous life in the society in which the arts are nourished."  — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 romeotuma wrote: 
The skull, screaming at the foot of the cross, is my own.

"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance."  — Goethe

 romeotuma wrote: 

Indeed.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."  — Nietzsche

"My life is an open book, but don't expect me to read it to you."
— David Hyde Pierce

ARE WE GONNA' EAT?

-Me...just now...

From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

"Well, there it goes, one of God's own prototypes. Too weird to live and too rare to die."

Alexandra wrote:

"It could last six days, six weeks.  I doubt six months."  —Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq war, February 7, 2003

"Only that which is fruitful is true"

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

—Niels Bohr

My newest favorite quote. This is Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, on "rallying for systemic change to the networks of food production and distribution," :

"I am in favor of guerrilla gardening. Plant shit where you can. But if you want access to water, etc., then you need to be politically involved."