Category Archives: Quotable Notables

Quotable: Mark Morford on the whole Obama thingy

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Hell yes, this is a time for screaming. For dancing, crying, celebrating with a rare feeling of renewal. It is a time for feeling it fully. A great thing has been done. A great shift has just transpired. Best news … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Hendrik Hertzberg on the dreaded S-word

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“As a buzzword, ‘socialism’ had mostly good connotations in most of the world for most of the twentieth century. That’s why the Nazis called themselves national socialists. That’s why the Bolsheviks called their regime the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Joshua Holland on same-sex marriage rights

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Now, it just so happens that I’m straight (not that there’s anything wrong with that), and yet I think it’s crucial that same-sex couples enjoy full marriage equality — and not just “civil unions.” Why the unyielding stance, given that … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Gwynne Dyer on the current financial crisis

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“In times like these, it is fashionable for despairing brokers and bankers to quote Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ — or rather, to misquote it: ‘IF you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Carl Sandburg on socialism

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”–Carl Sandburg

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Quotable: Bartcop on voter stupidity

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Poor people, year after year, vote to make the rich richer and that’s crazy.The way America votes, you’d think 2/3 of us are Fortune 500 CEOs.Poor people could vote themselves out of poverty – but they choose not to.and that’s … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Wajdi Mouawad on art and politics

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Now, as one functionary to another, this is the second thing that I wanted to tell you: no government, in showing contempt for artists, has ever been able to survive. Not one. One can, of course, ignore them, corrupt them, … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Lynda “Wonder Woman” Carter on Sarah Palin

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Sabina Becker

These bracelets deflect bullshit too, bitch!“Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Gloria Steinem on Sarah Palin

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Sabina Becker

This isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Stanley Milgram on bad Germans

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation. Thus, in Nazi Germany, even among those most closely identified with the ‘final solution’, it … Continue reading →

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