Bill Madden > Quotes

“You’ll never truly know how strong your spiritual practice is until you’re faced with your own mortality. Until you’re faced with an incurable disease, and you realize that the greater battle is not one of body, but the one in your mind.”
― Bill Madden

“Satire, sarcasm, and irony are always best when served with a side of truth. If Oscar Wilde were alive and on Twitter today, he’d be crucified.”
― Bill Madden

“Stopping Trump has nothing to do with having a left-leaning political bias — it has to do with having a bias for truth and human decency.”
― Bill Madden

“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”
― Bill Madden

“Delusion is like a security blanket for the ego: It allows us to never have to reckon with reality.”
― Bill Madden

“Most Americans don’t realize it, but this is our existential moment. The Germans had theirs in the 1930s, and failed. The next two years will define America, and whether democracy will survive the 21st century. The ‘greatest generation’ answered the call. Will we?”
― Bill Madden

“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”
― Bill Madden

“There comes a time in everyone's life where if you have intellectual curiosity and an inquisitive mind, you assess the prejudices learned from family and the environment in which you've grown up in — and make a decision to either reject it, or take comfort in remaining ignorant.”
― Bill Madden

“Ironically, the resilience and greatness of America may never be accentuated more than by its ability to withstand the unprecedented corruption of Donald Trump.”
― Bill Madden

“Anger is energy: If you hold on to it, it’ll infect you. But if you channel it into something positive — great things are possible.”
― Bill Madden

“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”
― Bill Madden

“There are people with superior intellect, but lack wisdom, and people who are not intellectually gifted, but extremely wise, then there are those inverted unicorns who lack both. Trump is that such animal, and as president, he’s exposed himself as the poster boy for the Peter Principle.”
― Bill Madden

“in Tampa and presented him with a book, Patton on Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare,”
― Bill Madden, Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

“Independent thinkers have always been a threat to those whose courage lies in the masses.”
― Bill Madden

“Everyone is born an artist. What differentiates us are the variations of creativity.”
― Bill Madden

“To change the game, hire a game-changer. Hire the one who moves the needle. Skip that, and it's two steps forward, two steps back — forever.”
― Bill Madden

“It’s long past overdue for the free press to stop ignoring the elephant in the room: What is increasingly obvious and is being discussed in bars, cafes, and universities around the world — in Trump, the United States of America has an unabashed fascist as president.”
― Bill Madden

“Trump is not a president who got caught in a lie — he is a mobster who got caught being president.”
― Bill Madden

“I don't identify with being old, I identify with being alive – which probably means I'm old.”
― Bill Madden

“You’re like a flower that’s ready to bloom, but never truly trusts the sun.”
― Bill Madden

“There is no longer a question of who Trump is. We're horrified not just every day, but nearly hourly. The question now is who we are as a people.”
― Bill Madden

“What the Trump presidency has exposed is — the ideological divide is not so much between conservatives and liberals, but rather those who are willing to allow America to be hijacked by authoritarianism, and those who still believe in constitutional democracy and the rule of law.”
― Bill Madden

“Democracy is only as moral and just as those in power, and only as wise as the citizens who elect them.”
― Bill Madden

“Remember, a smile is more contagious than the coronavirus.”
― Bill Madden

“If I am less kind than I was yesterday, then I am failing as a human being.”
― Bill Madden

“When it's easier to buy a cache of assault weapons than cast a vote — expect massacres to be the norm.”
― Bill Madden

“Every women’s civil rights struggle around the world, in a democratic or totalitarian country, whether Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jew – is a struggle of all of ours.”
― Bill Madden

“A Trump rally is where feeble-minded people congregate to escape their conscience.”
― Bill Madden

“As a child, the adults were my heroes. But as an adult with cancer, it’s the children who are my heroes.”
― Bill Madden