Just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean you get to fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.
Dara O’Briain, comedian
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Jon Stewart
You can truly grieve for every officer who’s been lost in the line of duty in this country and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. These two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.
Jon Stewart
H/t to many friends on the Book of Face
Friday Quote – Stewart Rhodes
…in Ferguson, what they’re being told is you only have two choices: 1) a hyper-militarized police state to stop violence, including arson, or 2) let it go and burn the town down. Twenty different buildings have burned to the ground. That’s a false choice.
For Ferguson in particular if…they don’t believe that the police department is legitimate, they should be protecting themselves and secure themselves because the more they secure themselves, the less reason there is for the police to be in their neighborhoods and communities. So they should take care of themselves for both reasons—to be secure, but also to be more free.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oathkeepers
Emphasis added.
H/t Reason
Friday Quote – Victor Hugo
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
Victor Hugo
Honestly, it’s more like a multiverse.
Friday Quote- Isaac Asimov
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe in anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer
The emphasis is mine.
Friday Quote – Ambrose Bierce
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy…
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
And as we’ve seen, some are multiple kinds at the same time.
H/t Barron on the Book of Face
Friday Quote – Chesty Puller
All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time.<\blockquote>
Lt. General Chesty Puller, USMC
Monday is the Marine Corps, 239th birthday. Happy Birthday Devil Dogs! Semper Fi.
Friday Quote – Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governor by your inferiors.
Plato
Go vote on Tuesday.
Friday Quote- Ann Landers
Opportunities are often disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Ann Landers, advice columnist
To get the job I have currently, I had to give up my days off from my previous employment (where I was working 50-55 hours) to volunteer for full shifts, and study to complete my degree on top of that. All of that hell paid off in a good job that I enjoy.
Friday Quote – Aristotle
It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.
Aristotle
Registration and licensing fees, anyone?