“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.” HardSeemsJesusChristJusticeHumilityJesus ChristMercy Author:Steven Weber
“We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.” WarUseGamesNationsMissingGuiltSoldierTreatedInnocentVietnamVietnam WarPawnsSenselessnessWar Games Author:Steven Weber
“I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.” BitterCowardReviewsConsoleParaphraseNoel Author:Steven Weber
“Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.” ThinkingRealityForceCommonExistenceKnownDiseaseStandingCancerMythOppressionPatriotHarshLoneLone WolfHarsh Reality Author:Steven Weber
“The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!” PeopleLooksEatingVoteIronyVotingVotersTrapsTailsSnakesIdiotic Author:Steven Weber
“In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.” MenMediaCorporateToneGossipExaggerationGrotesque Author:Steven Weber
“I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.” KnowsAdversariesCivilityScrapNicenessJunkyard Author:Steven Weber
“The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.” MathFlawsImperfectionRelativeShiftingLiquidAusterityExactitude Author:Steven Weber
“The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.” WayWantMayMeanEndsFolksDrivingSavingDriversHighwaysBeneficialRail Author:Steven Weber
“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.” HardSeemsDemocracyExpectations Author:Steven Weber