JasonMR's quotes

Justifying Street Art

"The people who run our cities … think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit ... The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff … Well, they started the fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back."

— Banksy

Philosphy And Pop Culture

Philosophy is for cynics, and pop culture is for bimbos.

— Stephen T. Asma

False Assumption

"Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed."

— Umberto Eco - Source: "Striking at the Heart of the State"

A Playful Mind

"When you’re playing and you’re just you, powerful things happen."

— Joybubbles - [Source]

False Correlation

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

— Carl Sagan [Source]

People Don't Want War

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

— Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials [Source]

Appropriate Reaction To The Death Of Some People

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

— Mark Twain

Reality And Fiction

Ever seen sex in a movie? You know how it’s not really anything like actual sex? Same goes for guns.


A Bit Of A Decline

The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.


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