Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kätzchen]

[Bèsame*]

[A. Spectre]

"Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry."

Rod Serling





This quote is quite prescient in light of the current madness enveloping the GOP.

Being a huge fan of The Twilight Zone his insights of his time dovetails into what is happening right now!

Serling's time in Leyte shaped his writing and political views for the rest of his life. He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him. Serling led the funeral services for Levy and placed a Star of David over his grave.[2]: 45  Serling later set several of his scripts in the Philippines and used the unpredictability of death as a theme in much of his writing.[2]: 46  In the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Purple Testament", a prologue written by Serling stated, "Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Philippine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight, as if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear—yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat, and these are the faces of war."

His daughter Anne Sterling is very proud of her father, I wrote to her last year stating the admiration I have with her dad. I didn't expect a reply, but she wrote back with a warm "thank you."

[A. Spectre]

FIRST THEY CAME

By Martin Niemöller


First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
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 out for me.

[Kätzchen]

[kittygrrl]

not sure where where i found this but i do love it

'and I knew when I entered her I was
high wind in her forests hollow
fingers whispering sound
honey flowed
from the split cup
impaled on a lance of tongues
on the tips of her breasts on her navel
and my breath'
howling into entrances
through lungs of pain…

[Kätzchen]

“They say that time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself,”

— Andy Warhol.

[kittygrrl]

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Dr Martin Luther King Jr

[Kätzchen]

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another women. We should raise each other up,” — Serena Williams (Women’s tennis champion).

[Orema]

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[Orema]

“Fuck that guy. He must be high... Who does that?” —Toni Collette speaking on Quinten Tarantino regarding some cruel things he said about another actor.

Love this quote and I think something similar errtime Trump comes to mind.

[Orema]

“What’s worse than a lie? To tell the truth and no one believes you.”

— Attorney Ben Crump’s grandmother

[Kätzchen]

“Some believe that it is only great power that holds evil in check. But that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love,” — JRR Tolkien (in, The Hobbit, 1937).

[Kätzchen]

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong,”— British Philosopher,Bertrand Russell.

[Orema]

[Orema]

“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.

But we are unbelievably ignorant concerning what goes on in our country--to say nothing of what goes on in the rest of the world--and appear to have become too timid to question what we are told.

Our failure to trust one another deeply enough to be able to talk to one another has become so great that people with these questions in their hearts do not speak them; our opulence is so pervasive that people who are afraid to lose whatever they think they have persuade themselves of the truth of a lie, and help disseminate it; and God help the innocent here, that man or womn who simply wants to love, and be loved. Unless this would-be lover is able to replace his or her backbone with a steel rod, he or she is doomed.

This is no place for love. I know that I am now expected to make a bow in the direction of those millions of unremarked, happy marriages all over America, but I am unable honestly to do so because I find nothing whatever in our moral and social climate--and I am now thinking particularly of the state of our children--to bear witness to their existence. I suspect that when we refer to these happy and so marvelously invisible people, we are simply being nostalgic concerning the happy, simple, God-fearing life which we imagine ourselves once to have lived.

In any case, wherever love is found, it unfailingly makes itself felt in the individual, the personal authority of the individual. Judged by this standard, we are a loveless nation. The best that can be said is that some of us are struggling. And what we are struggling against is that death in the heart which leads not only to the shedding of blood, but which reduces human beings to corpses while they live.”

― James Baldwin, Nothing Personal