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#1

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

3382 likes

#2

“Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

tags: cyberpunk

14 likes

#3

“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

tags: cyberpunk

171 likes

#4

“A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market – Inside the Underground Economy: Tycoons, Technology, and Power

tags: observation, social-commentary

17 likes

#5

“It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: witty

10 likes

#6

“Devil's Food?"

You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.”
― Christopher Moore

tags: humor

10 likes

#7

“Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: chilling

9 likes

#8

“Routine feeds the illusion of safety...”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: wisdom

102 likes

#9

“The medium obscured the message.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: communication

15 likes

#10

“Ack! Parables. I hate parables.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: humor

9 likes

#11

“Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.”
― John Burdett, Bangkok 8

tags: humor

11 likes

#12

“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

tags: hunter-s-thompson, kingdom-of-fear, morality, wisdom

212 likes

#13

“Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

88 likes

#14

“Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

tags: humor, politics

55 likes

#15

“This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

tags: humor, witty

143 likes

#16

“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

tags: humor, wit

166 likes

#17

“Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

tags: humor

46 likes

#18

“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

tags: humor

72 likes

#19

“She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.”
― Cherie Priest, Boneshaker

tags: humor

10 likes

#20

“They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: political, war

12 likes

#21

“Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: beer, humor

19 likes

#22

“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: humor, truth

38 likes

#23

“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

tags: fool, foolish, wisdom

91 likes

#24

“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: conspiracy

30 likes

#25

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: alcohol, politics, witty

83 likes

#26

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

9107 likes

#27

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben

tags: humour, politics, truth

3209 likes

#28

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics

2170 likes

#29

“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: autonomy, complacency, ethics, independence, politics, proactivity, self-determination, society

641 likes

#30

“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: computers, humor, sex, technology, technophobes, wit

116 likes

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