Bageant Joe Quotes

#1. We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

John Calvin

#2. Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

Joe Bageant

#3. They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.

Joe Bageant

#4. Somebody left the American Dream in the toaster too long. It's now burnt to a crisp.

Joe Bageant

#5. At night, my dreams rhyme, and all day I have an aftertaste of insomnia.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

Joe Bageant

#7. Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle?

Joe Bageant

#8. Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs?

Joe Bageant

#9. The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

Joe Bageant

#10. You can't stop the world and get off, so you just have to learn to live on it.

Harry Harrison

#11. And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was

Janice Hardy

#12. It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.

Hermann Hesse

#13. I mean, your species is responsible for Windows Vista.

Craig Alanson

#14. If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.

Joe Bageant

#15. The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.

Joe Bageant