Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
Eartha Kitt
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.
Mao Zedong
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.
Joe Biden
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
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I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
Michelle Obama
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The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Bill Gates
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I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
Shirley Chisholm
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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
Condoleezza Rice
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I’m always interested in learning something new.
Katherine Johnson
Got any book recommendations?