Nick Riggle > Quotes

“George Carlin, as early as 2001, noted in his book Napalm & Silly Putty: Everybody says [politicians] suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here . . . like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: “The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.”*”
― Nick Riggle, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck

“When you trust as little as possible in the future, you are more open to the value in the present.”
― Nick Riggle, This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive

“Robert H. Lustig, professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, displayed full mastery of the term and even emphasized its special ability to articulate his thought: Now, I will tell you that America doesn’t trust its politicians. And we have a good reason for that: they suck. If you don’t quote me, I will be upset. The reason they suck is because, number one, they’re interested in power, not doing the right thing, and, number two, they take money.*”
― Nick Riggle, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck

“We live in uncertain anticipation of what our lives will be, in ignorance of what our lives are, unsettled by what they have been, afraid of what they could have been.”
― Nick Riggle, This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive

“There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs: the one the receptacle of a precious life essence, the other the repository of the element that keeps the essence pure and strong. —Emma Goldman”
― Nick Riggle, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck