Best Quote For The Times We Live In.

[glamphotographer]

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” ― Albert Camus

Albert Camus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[oil&gas]

When democracy is sick just see to it that fascists, racists, Donald Trump
wannabes and anyone considered far-right are banned from running in an
election. Problem solved. Macron will agree with me.

 

[jalimon]

"Do you believe in liberty or do you agree with Marjorie?"

 

[glamphotographer]

"Do you believe in liberty or do you agree with Marjorie?"

Who said that?

 

[SchlongConery]

Who said that?

jalimon.

 

[jalimon]

jalimon.

No, I need to be honest, it`s from an anonymous Tiktok user

 

[RZG]

" Canada should have been building strong the last ten years instead of DEI, woke, genders and pronouns."

 

[Valcazar]

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” ― Albert Camus

Albert Camus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Camus was more interesting than Sartre.

 

[kherg007]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "
Supposedly Voltaire.

 

[anon1]

 

[Lenny59]

It's now emerging that MANY knew of Biden's cognitive impairment but remained silent and further, actively covered it up. So WHO was running the USA for the last four years and had their finger on the nuclear button in his stead?

 

[Leimonis]

It's now emerging that MANY knew of Biden's cognitive impairment but remained silent and further, actively covered it up. So WHO was running the USA for the last four years and had their finger on the nuclear button in his stead?

Hugo Chavez!

 

[versitile1]

It's now emerging that MANY knew of Biden's cognitive impairment but remained silent and further, actively covered it up. So WHO was running the USA for the last four years and had their finger on the nuclear button in his stead?

George Soros, Anthony Fauci, and Hunter Biden all had 8 hour rotating shifts.

 

[SchlongConery]

When democracy is sick just see to it that fascists, racists, Donald Trump
wannabes and anyone considered far-right are banned from running in an
election. Problem solved. Macron will agree with me.

So will Putin!

Well, tbh, he's much better with disappearing any candidat4es opposed to him.

 

[SchlongConery]

It's now emerging that MANY knew of Biden's cognitive impairment but remained silent and further, actively covered it up. So WHO was running the USA for the last four years and had their finger on the nuclear button in his stead?

Fortunately MANY recognized Trump's emotional instability and re-wired the RED BOTTON on the desk of the Oval Office to order him Diet Cokes instead!

"Can you beleive it? Like I go to drop a nuke on some old friend... I mean TRAITOR.. and god sends me a Diet Coke on a Silver Platter to congratulate me!"

 

[Valcazar]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "
Supposedly Voltaire.

It's a good enough translation of Voltaire's original, I think.

Il y a eu des gens qui ont dit autrefois : Vous croyez des choses incompréhensibles, contradictoires, impossibles, parce que nous vous l’avons ordonné ; faites donc des choses injustes parce que nous vous l’ordonnons. Ces gens-là raisonnaient à merveille. Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste. Si vous n’opposez point aux ordres de croire l’impossible l’intelligence que Dieu a mise dans votre esprit, vous ne devez point opposer aux ordres de malfaire la justice que Dieu a mise dans votre cœur.

I'd say it is less accurate as a translation of the line in isolation, but more or less correct for the line in context of the paragraph.

 

[kherg007]

It's a good enough translation of Voltaire's original, I think.



I'd say it is less accurate as a translation of the line in isolation, but more or less correct for the line in context of the paragraph.

Hopefully I passed the course.
Yes there have been people saying it may not be him etc. But you Google it he gets credit as written. But you know how these things go. Memes don't have to be accurate to take on a life of their own.
But, most importantly, whoever said it, the thoughts expressed are spot on, imho.

 

[Valcazar]

Hopefully I passed the course.
Yes there have been people saying it may not be him etc. But you Google it he gets credit as written. But you know how these things go. Memes don't have to be accurate to take on a life of their own.
But, most importantly, whoever said it, the thoughts expressed are spot on, imho.

There are SO MANY quotes that are falsely attributed.
It's fair to just slap "allegedly" on something and call it a day.

 

[kherg007]

There are SO MANY quotes that are falsely attributed.
It's fair to just slap "allegedly" on something and call it a day.

So true, i had to even put in a "supposedly" cuz all sources tend to be second or third hand or whatever. I do find when I do deeper dives back to original sources that I'm often surprised how the initial quote was a misquote, and then the misquote takes on the life of its own, as other tend to cite the citer blindly and don't double check. But as we know quotes are often used to justify opinions or actions, so, if they work to do that as is (accuracy be damned), why mess them up by getting "precise" lol.
Now you have deep fakes are everywhere supposedly showing whomever saying whatever. The skill set required nowadays to parse real from imaginary is going to be the essential skill for those who thrive.

 

[bmwquay]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "
Supposedly Voltaire.

Jan 6