Dave Kooi

“There's a crack in everything, that's
M how the light gets in.” ~Leonard Cohen

"I pray that when I die all of hell will rejoice that I am out of the fight." ~Charles Thomas Studd

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~Marcel Proust

"Hitler didn't steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people." ~Pope Francis 2017

“If justice perishes, then human life on earth will have lost its meaning." ~Emmanual Kant

"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ~Issac Asimov

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism," ~Hannah Arendt

"Fascism is the capitalism's' emergency solution when the ruling class could no longer govern through liberal democracy." ~Antonio Gramsci.

“Calling bigotry an opinion is like calling arsenic a flavor.” ~Jack Cameron

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” ~Mark Twain

“A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system" ~Walter Cronkite 1992

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ~Mary Oliver

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” ~Bruce Lee

"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." ~Ray Bradbury

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." ~Gustavo Petro

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does." ~Terence McKenna

“It is silly to think that one can challenge and also have approval.” ~Bell Hooks

"Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind" ~Noam Chomsky

"I only speak good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good!" ~Bette Davis

"First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent" ~Bertrand Russell

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." ~Hannah Arendt

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson

"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own." ~Adam Lindsay Gordon

"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ~Isaac Asimov

"you can never be overdressed or overeducated." ~Oscar Wilde

"Love is never wasted,
For its value does not rest upon reciprocity." ~C.S. Lewis

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society" ~Martin Luther King Jr

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself." ~Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.” ~MarkTwain.