Category Archives: Cartoon
“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.” ~Howard Zinn
“My problem is that the U.S. government wants us to be dumb. They’re not interested in a nation of smart, observant, rational people. They want us to be knee-jerk fools who ooh and aah at the TV and believe everything we hear, “no way!” like some forever 12-year olds who have no ability to think for ourselves, mold our own lives, allow ourselves to be controlled and directed by the government, which is not what America is about. We began this country by fighting against the tyranny of the King, we fought to make up our own lives, live how we want. America is the single greatest collection of heroes and intellectuals and builders the world has ever seen. We created the modern world, electricity, cars, factories, TV, radio, Internet, computers, cell phones, etc… And now our government wants to turn us into Honey Boo-Boo’s. Who’s going to build the future if we all turn into moronic hoax-believers? I’m confident that the government won’t win, that intelligent people will not be swayed, that brain power will overcome the idiot boxes of TV.” ~Anon
“I can absolutely agree that there is a lot to complain about. If there wasn’t, people wouldn’t have such an easy job doing so. It isn’t an easy task to jump in the river of agony, pain and smile while you are diving through it. Like any other great river, for surely suffering and the way how most people treat each other is a strong current, we must remember that a river of such size eventually splits up into a delta, where it joins the ocean. If you can stay strong and cultivate a persistent will of fire deep within yourself and say; “hey, I know shit is tough, but why am I letting this kill me? I am not my surroundings unless I allow it to overtake me.”, you can grow seeds of courage, which will be your ultimate tool in the realms of physical and metaphysical survival. Don’t ever give up to the cruelties in this world. Let your strength radiate out energy that will transform your own surroundings and that will, given enough time, spread to the far reaches of this universe.” ~ Zdravko Stefanovic
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ~ Carl Sagan
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.” ~Albert Schweitzer
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.” ~ Carl Sagan
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” ~Thomas Jefferson
Under The Blue Door 