Joe Bageant Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

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#3. If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

Ricky Williams

#4. Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

John Updike

#5. In my job I do my best to look forward.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#6. 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.

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#7. No sun cream or condoms, just in case you're looking at the lady-boys. There's plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine.

Simon Palmer

#8. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

George Horace Lorimer

#9. Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

Kenneth Rexroth

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

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

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#12. The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

Donald Miller

#13. The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?

Tyson Chandler

#14. Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

Carson McCullers

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

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#16. Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,

Sojourner Truth

#17. No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

Joe Biden

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

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#19. I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

Eric Bana

#20. If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough.

Marty Rubin

#21. 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

#22. Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Max Weber

#23. Life is hard, but it's also crazy-beautiful. Fight for your best life. You deserve it.

Carmen Rodrigues

#24. 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