Just because you can't dance, doesn't mean you shouldn't dance. —Alcohol

Quote from: rcjordan on November 25, 2015, 01:06:59 PM
Just because you can't dance, doesn't mean you shouldn't dance. —Alcohol

"I really do believe this: that music is too important to be left to professionals..."
Michelle Shocked, "Austin City Limits" TV show, 1990. http://www.mypage.tsn.cc/toddby/derivations.htm

I always thought that was Pete Seeger that said it, but as best I can tell on the interwebs, it's not.

"The last people with jobs will be AI programmers." -George Hotz

"Florida is like the South tried to have a baby with California but after the fact realized they were siblings and ended up with a troglodyte child. "
Dr. Cool

"If you go through your day and meet one asshole: okay, you met an asshole.

If you go through your day and all you meet are assholes: you might be the asshole."

Reddit

"Les indigènes eux, ne fonctionnent guère en somme qu'à coups de trique, ils gardent cette dignité, tandis que les Blancs, perfectionnés par l'instruction publique, ils marchent tout seuls."
  -- Celine, Voyage au bout de la nuit

In English, roughly
"The natives, they hardly did anything without being beaten with a cudgel. They retained that much dignity, whereas the whites, perfected by public education, worked entirely of their own accord."

So basically: society is pacifying and education is a tool instill compliance?

Well, as the historian, that's probably about how I would put it. Though Celine is writing in the context of being drafted and then deserting (I think) in WWI and seeing the carnage and raises the question of what it means to be perceived as sane by a society that has gone insane.

So I think Celine's point is more about the internalization of masters, the liberty of mind versus the liberty of body, which I guess is the same thing as a tool to instill compliance.

I first read the quote about 20 years ago and it always stuck with me.

"Better to die than live a coward."

http://www.allthingsworkplace.com/2009/10/do-you-have-the-commitment-of-a-gurkha.html

That's commitment to a cause.

'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches?' -Sam Kinison

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. --Samuel Johnson April 1775

"Just remember, when you point the finger there's three more fingers pointing back at you." - Unknown.

When viewing the world through rose-colored glasses, red flags just look like flags.

-reddit

Quote from: Drastic on July 23, 2016, 01:59:41 AM
When viewing the world through rose-colored glasses, red flags just look like flags.

!!! That's not a quote. That's a tool!