Is this a blanket offer to "please" us? If so, I'll everything possible to make it work in your favor too.
I WAS a people pleaser.. now I know better, thanks to teach and a mirror. ~ wez Now I only please people worth pleasing that are pleased for who I am and the rest can go to hell in a bucket. I'm speaking my mind regardless.. yay me ~ wez
It's a gift.. yay me Were you born a tough guy or did you learn that in the army? I should please you because...why? Please explain
Well.. I guess I could please you in a hospital.. You need a colostomy bag cleaned? Suppository? .... enema?
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. ~ Aristotle The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ~ John Dryden How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it? ~ Marcus Aurelius Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas a Kempis I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. A Poison Tree ~ William Blake He who angers you conquers you. ~ Elizabeth Kenny
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." --Clarence Darrow I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access of all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. ~ American Library Association Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. ~ Alan Barth The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. ~ Isaiah Berlin A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. ~ Leon Blum For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments. ~ Noam Chomsky To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~ e. e. cummings Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed. ~ Josiah William Gitt Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. ~ Herman Hesse I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eugene Ionesco Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet. ~ Jamaica Kincaid One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~ Sigmund Freud War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ~ Alexander Berkman Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor and national security. ~ Alfred Adler Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ~ Ayn Rand Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. ~ Ayn Rand We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ~ Benjamin Harrison Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him? ~ Blaise Pascal Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat- including men--from reluctant citizens... ~ Charles Tilly Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant. ~ C.L. Montague The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions. ~ Colonel James A. Donovan The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory. ~ Colonel James A. Donovan Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military victory. ~ Colonel James A. Donovan Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. ~ Davy Crockett "Rules of engagement" are a set of guidelines for murder. ~ Dr. Teresa Whitehurst I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ~ Ed Abbey Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.~ Edward M. Kennedy If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.~ Frederick the Great War is fear cloaked in courage. ~ General William Westmoreland Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with... ~ Gerard K. O'Neill
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force. ~ Lao Tsu How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~ Lao Tzu One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. ~ Louis Lecoin You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. ~ Malcolm X I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. ~ Mark Twain The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities ~ Mark Twain Violence is not power, but the absence of power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~ Oscar Wilde I learned nothing from war. War is not an activity for human beings; war is for criminalsrape, robbery and murder. ~ Roman Podabedov Not only is war a form of legalized murder, but it is mass serial killing. ~ Sarah Bellum If you support any offensive war, consider yourself just as culpable of murder as the most insane serial killer. ~ Sarah Bellum War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ~ Thomas Carlyle Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate. ~ Thomas della Peruta We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly
There's only one kind of person in this world that hates attention whores.. and that is jealous, hypocritical attention whores. ~ wez What you hate is what you are and that is why you hate it. ~ wez
"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn." - Mike Tyson Yes... Iron Mike Tyson. Must've been before Lennox Lewis.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. ~ Aldous Huxley A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.... I think were being run by maniacs for maniacal ends ... and I think Im liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. Thats whats insane about it. ~ John lennon In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. ~ Kurt Nimmo When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. ~ George Bernard Shaw Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong ~ Voltaire Years ago, it meant something to be crazy. Now everyone's crazy. ~ Charles Manson What luck for rulers that men do not think. ~ Adolf Hitler Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. ~ Ray Bradbury We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. ~ William Shakespeare