THOUGHTS in 2022

"The thought that if you don't do what we like, then we will just get rid of you and march on and do it ourselves-that to me is fascism."

Rusty Bowers, Republican ex-speaker of Arizona House of Representative

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me."

Martin Niemöller, Confessing pastor and repentant nationalist

 "I am a Hispanic American proud of the amazingly beautiful Latino culture my forefathers brought to and merged with the other diverse cultures of our great land."

Charlie Quiles, quoted in Local Latin Nightlife

"Take these seeds so sunflowers grow when you die here."              says unknown Ukrainian  woman to an invading Russian soldier.

Concerning the border bridge blockade, CNN journalist, John Avlon stated, "My right to swing my fist ends at your nose."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, quoted in Mental Floss

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has 

the power to make you commit injustices." 

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

"Argue like you're right and listen like your wrong".

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant, quoted in the Wall Street Journal

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."

H.L. Mencken, quoted in FedSmith

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

Pablo Picasso, quoted in Forbes

"... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it."

Pres. Abraham Lincoln, quoted in TIME