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  • Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like, great public schools or health insurance for all.
    How about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,” and so on. Not exactly planks in a Republican platform.
    For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But often, with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And, of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
    “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom?
    “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon?
    Gimme a break.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:47 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: beatitudes, christianity, conservatism, irony, socialism

  • Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

    Speaker: Ellen Goodman
    Rating:
    2 (2 votes)
    Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:11 AM
    Posted By: wheaties
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    Tags: irony, normal
    Shared By: 3 members; oursojeri, dirid51, wheaties

  • “I caused men no longer to foresee their death.
    …I planted firmly in their hearts blind hopefulness.
    …And helping humans I found trouble for myself,
    Yet I did not expect such punishment as this.” Prometheus

    Speaker: Aeschylus
    Rating:
    0 (0 votes)
    Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: hope, humanity, irony, prometheus-bound, service
    Shared By: 2 members; winswmlik, Puck

  • Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
    That it do singe yourself.

    Speaker: William Shakespeare
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    Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:11 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: communication, hate, how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living, irony, self-control
    Shared By: 2 members; sdressfancy, Puck

  • It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:03 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: friendship, irony, love, slaughter-house-five