Everyman Quotes

“Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.”
― Lionel Blue

“Within the drama the Promethean Ahab challenges the laws of creation and dares to steal divine thunder in order to shape it to his ends, subordinating passive Ishmael to his will. But Ishmael alone has escaped to tell the tale and in that telling is the author of a new creation, subordinating Ahab to his purpose.”
― Larzer Ziff, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“For he that will say and nothing do
Is not worthy with good company to go.”
― Anonymous

“Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I ask you this. If the Everyman will sing this Song, then why shouldn’t the Everyman make our videos, too?”

Yes, of course! Why shouldn’t the Everyman make our videos too?

Kanish was describing the business model of Big Tech. Get the user base to create content, which generates eyeballs, which advertisers pay to reach. In exchange, Big Tech shares just enough of the ad revenue with their largest content providers to make it appear as though it’s a viable business model for the rest of us. This is nothing new, mind you. It’s really just a modern spin on Feudalism—the Lord of the Manor exploits us lowly Serfs to work the land in exchange for our own meager sustenance.

It sounds so terrible when I put it that way, doesn’t it?”
― Mixerman, #Mixerman and the Billionheir Apparent

“Luke tells us that Jesus cast the devil out of a boy who repeatedly threw himself into fire and water to destroy himself. Of all the unfortunates in the New Testament we are, perhaps, least likely to see ourselves in this boy. Yet he is the best symbol for us: we too continually plunge ourselves into all sorts of nonsense and engage in a diversity of dangerous and self-destructive beliefs and practices. This unfortunate is Everyman. He shows us truth: of our selves we are lost—Jesus only can save us.”
― Jean-Michel Hansen

“Suburban Strain
by Stewart Stafford

Hedgecutters are out in force,
Only doing it to avoid divorce,
Futile pleas that it can be enough,
Rush out and buy more stuff.

Bake out in the sun to peel and fry,
Turn lobster red as tiny drones spy,
Stiffly inside to scream and moan,
A walking barbecue with an overdue loan.

The blaring alarm clock cracks the whip;
Shower, coffee, then a doom-scrolled trip!
Women apply warpaint on bus and train,
Call out sick — the malingerer’s strain.

A Master’s in studying ceiling grain,
A stolen soupçon to rest the brain.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford