“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.” WorldHandsCoursesDecisionCitiesAcceptingOrganizationCupsSoccerOfficialsHostAccusedWorld CupBribeFifa Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.” IfsThinkingWayYearsCertainForceProcessCitiesAcceptingOur LivesTenDrawsChaosCan't ChangeRandomnessWeighingUnpredictability Author:Frank Gehry
“We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.” GivingStatesLinesUnitedCitiesAcceptingGiving UpAgreeTerroristAgreementPalestinianSovereigntyIsraeliJerusalem Author:Naftali Bennett
“Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.” DoneHouseDealsCitiesAcceptingStudyDrugMurderEnvironmentalInevitablePollutionLungsAutomobileSaving MoneyPoisonousRotting Author:Joy Davidman
“I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.” ThinkingWayImportantCountryWhiteCitiesAcceptingLuckySafeMalesWealthy Author:Dan Mangan
“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.” PeopleMayCountryGovernmentTogetherValuesCitiesCompanyAcceptingEnvironmentLandDogNormalConnectionsEnvironmentalSecureLandscapeEnterpriseTransformedMy DogMiningConcessionsSpeculators Author:Wade Davis
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.” WorldWayChildrenLastsNaturalViewsCitiesAcceptingClearAcceptanceReturnNeededLoversIllnessAbsenceI RealizedGravesHolesMy WayFortyIntensityIrelandExileGrimSwampsRigorFjords Author:Kevin Barry
“Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.” PeopleMadeSaidCitiesAcceptingDestinyNew YorkParenthoodNew York CityPlanned ParenthoodGrandson Author:Margaret Sanger