I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice... Forget it. PS. - Matt Groening

She also added, “It was so much better in my office when the Dems stayed home during Covid with their masks on. I wish they still did.” beingliberal.substack.com/p/maga-denti...

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it. PS. - Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

...In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime. PS. - George Orwell, 1984

...you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person. PS. - J. Brown, Thousand Words

In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness. PS. - Martin Cruz Smith,  Gorky Park

Sooner or later, all games become serious. - J. G. Ballard

I have been in the Place of the Gods and seen it! Now slay me, if it is the law — but still I know they were men. PS. - Stephen Vincent Benét, By the Waters of Babylon

“What the insane Father required was blood and misery; he was indifferent as to who furnished it.” PS. - Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. PS. - Boris Pasternak

"It's Hearst...is he Caesar, to have fights to the death for diversion? Murder his workers at whim? Smash passages in the f*cking wall? A man of less wealth would be in f*cking restraints." "We're in the presence of the new." "F*ck the f*cking new! Jesus Christ, Al. Is it over for us here?"

And while it may be unrealistic to expect the masses to go digitally vegan, it’s not a bad idea for us all to be more cognisant of how much AI we consume...its impact on the planet. Perhaps any request to AI apps should be met with a digital calorie count first? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare... Remember that when he comes to your town... when you hear his voice speaking out through others...He's alive because through these things we keep him alive. PS. - TTZ, S4-E4

Samantha Carter: Maybourne, you are an idiot every day of the week. Why couldn't you have just taken one day off? PS. - Stargate SG-1

“Hubris—that’s a word that’s often translated as excessive pride, but its basic meaning in Greek is wanton violence, violence that is often motivated by pride.” PS. - Professor Elizabeth Vandiver

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse. PS. - Between The Tides

If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria. PS. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds." PS. - A Tale of Two Cities

The refrain these families constantly hear from management is, ‘Well, you're welcome to go somewhere else,’ knowing that there is nowhere else to go,” Goldstone describes.

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't. PS. - Richard Brautigan

Did you ever stop to figure that there's all kinds of dying, but only one way of being dead? PS. - Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. PS. - Marc Maron

We are so screwed. PS. - Supernatural

Narrator: It never ends well when you ignore them.

You finally, really did it—you maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell! PS. - Planet of the Apes

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. PS. - Carl Jung

"He was no super-cop. He was a super-anarchist." If this rowdy and rebellious Superman were introduced today, he'd be hailed as one of the most subversive superheroes around. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride. PS. - Jeff Hawkins

On top of this, nuclear sites run the risk of posing a dangerous threat to local biodiversity, by releasing water which is too hot into rivers and seas. www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/f...

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship. PS. - Ernest Becker

Fascism is a movement which relies on the weakness and cowardice of the masses. PS. - Walter Benjamin

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may well be another profound truth." PS. - Niels Bohr

“There’s no longer a reason for us to fight. There are no longer any armies. Only rags of various colors that were once uniforms…” - The Twilight Zone, Two

The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The thousands of National Guardsmen President Trump sent to Los Angeles in an authoritarian power play are working for free. newrepublic.com/post/196729/...

Joel: Wait! Wait! I need a quote! President: Don't let... don't let them kill me. Joel: Yeah, that will do.

“Fire is catching!” I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. “And if we burn, you burn with us!” PS. - Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not. PS. - Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance. PS. - maybe Nostradamus

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. PS. - Samuel Johnson

“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has.” www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class." PS. - mayhaps Al Capone

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. PS. - Richard Matheson