Jun 21, 2009 23:57
I wrote these down years ago and they randomly turned up the other day.
"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Elanor Roosevelt
"If life is one big joke, I don't get it."
-Jack Handey
"Be warned! If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever it is."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there."
-Henry Adams
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on Earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene Victor Debs
The last one is my personal favorite.