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

“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

“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

“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

“If everything happens for a reason, then I’m willing to be unreasonable.”
― Bill Madden

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Even the ill-gotten billions reaped over decades from extortion, assassinations, and rackets by New York City’s Five Mafia Families pale in comparison to the trillions in economic devastation — from ballooning national debt to household-crushing tariffs — and the deliberate erosion of laws, the Constitution, and democratic institutions inflicted on America by Trump across his terms. This isn’t a U.S. presidency; it’s a mob boss running a criminal enterprise out of the White House.”
― Bill Madden

“Don’t let fear and pessimism prevent you from meeting amazing people. There are so many wise, intelligent, artistic, and compassionate people, who without the internet, you’d never have the opportunity to connect with. Don’t fear friendship. Be brave. Life is short and precious.”
― Bill Madden