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Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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November 10, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Kurt Vonnegut:

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

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November 9, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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T. E. Lawrence:

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.

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November 8, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert Benchley:

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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November 7, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jerome Bruner:

Education must be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

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November 6, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Thomas Jefferson:

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I wonder what he would have said about “social” media?

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November 5, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Edmund Crispin, in the voice of Gervase Fen:

Never forget that political zealots are people who are over-indulging their emotional need of hatred.

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November 4, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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George Carlin:

Think it through: If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and you screw things up, then you’re responsible for what they’ve done. You voted them in. You caused the problem.

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November 3, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Anders Chydenius:

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

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November 2, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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W. E. B. Du Bois:

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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November 1, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Voltaire:

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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October 31, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Claire McCaskill:

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

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October 30, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Theodore Roosevelt:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

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October 29, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Leo Tolstoy:

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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October 28, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ben Fountain:

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

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October 27, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Isaac Asimov:

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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October 26, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Hunter S. Thompson:

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

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October 25, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Benjamin Franklin:

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.

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October 24, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert K. Merton:

The extreme emphasis upon the accumulation of wealth as a symbol of success in our society militates against the completely effective control of institutionally regulated modes of acquiring a fortune.

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October 23, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert Ellis, in the voice of Dexter Franklin:

Like the man says, money talks. The only trouble is all mine ever says is good-bye.

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