DWELL ON THIS 2024

Enter your text here...

"There is no subject of public interest—politics, news, education, religion, science, sports—that does not find its way to television. Which means that all public understanding of these subjects is shaped by the biases of television."

 Neil Postman, Author - Amusing Ourselves to Death

"We found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves."

Jim Collins 

″'They don't want us banding together for higher wages or better housing,' said Marta. 'The owners think if Mexicans have no hot water, that we won't mind as long as we think no one has any.'"

Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising 

Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, I think you're focusing on the wrong shit."

Wanda Sykes, quoted in the Los Angeles Times

"Think of President Xi: Central casting. Brilliant guy. You know, when I say he's brilliant, everyone says, 'Oh, that's terrible' ... Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There's nobody in Hollywood like this guy."

Donald Trump, July 2023 on Fox News

Does this guy want to be USA's first dictator, or what?

"...we look at the facts, we look at the law, we bring charges."

Fani Willis, Georgia District Attorney

"Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people."

Heinrich Heine, quoted in The Florida Star

A candidate under federal indictment "has no right to be running." Further, it would be "virtually impossible for a president under indictment] to govern." -- D. Trump, Nov. 2016

"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."

President Biden, quoted in Polity (South Africa)

"When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. 'My hero!' It's really creepy." 

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describing Trump's interactions with Putin on Australian ABC's "Q+A" show

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

James Baldwin, quoted in LitHub

"Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching. I'm surprised you're still — isn't it past your jail time?"

Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel's reaction to the former president trolling him on Truth Social. Trump criticized Kimmel's hosting skills and called the show a "really bad politically correct show" and "disjointed, boring and very unfair."

"The big joke on democracy is that it gives it's mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction." 

Josef Goebbels, Nazi propagandist wrote in 1928