James Husband
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"Quand le peuple n'aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche."
("When the people have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.")
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau (aprocryphally)
("When the people have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.")
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau (aprocryphally)
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Quand le peuple n'aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche."
("When the people have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.")
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau (aprocryphally)
("When the people have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.")
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau (aprocryphally)
"It is useless to argue with a man whose opinion is based upon a personal or pecuniary interest; the only way to deal with him is to outvote him."
— William Jennings Bryan
— William Jennings Bryan
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"It is useless to argue with a man whose opinion is based upon a personal or pecuniary interest; the only way to deal with him is to outvote him."
— William Jennings Bryan
— William Jennings Bryan
"It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff."
— Fred Rogers
— Fred Rogers
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff."
— Fred Rogers
— Fred Rogers
"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties."
— Billie Eilish
— Billie Eilish
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties."
— Billie Eilish
— Billie Eilish
“The only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“The only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Look up to the sky; you'll never find rainbows if you're looking down."
— Charlie Chaplin
— Charlie Chaplin
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Look up to the sky; you'll never find rainbows if you're looking down."
— Charlie Chaplin
— Charlie Chaplin
“We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.”
— Lord Grantham, “Downton Abbey”
— Lord Grantham, “Downton Abbey”
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.”
— Lord Grantham, “Downton Abbey”
— Lord Grantham, “Downton Abbey”
"You don't need to speak overtly about religion in order to get a message across.”
— Fred Rogers
— Fred Rogers
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"You don't need to speak overtly about religion in order to get a message across.”
— Fred Rogers
— Fred Rogers
“Empathy is the engine that powers all the best of us.”
— Meryl Streep
— Meryl Streep
September 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Empathy is the engine that powers all the best of us.”
— Meryl Streep
— Meryl Streep
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I thank the Lord for the people I have found.”
— Elton John, “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”
— Elton John, “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“I thank the Lord for the people I have found.”
— Elton John, “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”
— Elton John, “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 1963
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 1963
September 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 1963
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 1963
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
August 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"When I was young, I knew a lot. Now, I don't know nothing, which is a great relief."
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"When I was young, I knew a lot. Now, I don't know nothing, which is a great relief."
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
"Cheer up. You never know; maybe something awful will happen tomorrow."
— John Waters
— John Waters
August 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Cheer up. You never know; maybe something awful will happen tomorrow."
— John Waters
— John Waters
"Do not let people think you do not belong."
— Pres. Barack Obama
— Pres. Barack Obama
August 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Do not let people think you do not belong."
— Pres. Barack Obama
— Pres. Barack Obama
"Irreverence is easy — what's hard is wit."
— Tom Lehrer
— Tom Lehrer
August 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Irreverence is easy — what's hard is wit."
— Tom Lehrer
— Tom Lehrer
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Francis Bacon
— Francis Bacon
July 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Francis Bacon
— Francis Bacon
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo Sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan Narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
— Terry Pratchett
— Terry Pratchett
July 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo Sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan Narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
— Terry Pratchett
— Terry Pratchett
“Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and we have no future.”
— Ray Bradbury
— Ray Bradbury
July 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and we have no future.”
— Ray Bradbury
— Ray Bradbury
“Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America, and become an American. This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness.”
— Pres. Ronald Reagan
— Pres. Ronald Reagan
July 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America, and become an American. This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness.”
— Pres. Ronald Reagan
— Pres. Ronald Reagan
“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
— Eric Hoffer
— Eric Hoffer
July 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
— Eric Hoffer
— Eric Hoffer
“If none of us ever read a book that was ‘dangerous,’ had a friend who was ‘different,’ or joined an organization that advocated ‘change,’ we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.”
— Edward R. Murrow
— Edward R. Murrow
June 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“If none of us ever read a book that was ‘dangerous,’ had a friend who was ‘different,’ or joined an organization that advocated ‘change,’ we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.”
— Edward R. Murrow
— Edward R. Murrow
“I could accept getting older, but I don’t plan to disintegrate.”
— Cher
— Cher
June 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“I could accept getting older, but I don’t plan to disintegrate.”
— Cher
— Cher
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson