#crook

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#crook #find #him #honest #know

In Chicago, we love our crooks! ↗

— David Mamet

#crooks #love #our

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. ↗

— James Shirley

#armour #blood #crooked #crown #death

We can also profit by reading more modern authors who seem at first sight to be merely perversely questioning what every sensible person knows to be true. Such writers do us a great service, of forcing us to question our old beliefs, so that we may freely and intelligently choose what is sound in them and reject the rest, and thus have our minds prepared for seeing new and unfamiliar truths. Most people do not need protection from being shocked. They need to be shocked a great deal more than they are. ↗

— R.H. Thouless and C.R. Thouless

#straight-crooked-thinking #intelligence

The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him. ↗

— Autumn Christian

#atheism #god #humanity #religion #the-crooked-god-machine

There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #crooked-politicians #politics #relentless #washington-dc

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#lawyers #curiosity

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #god #makes #straight #thought

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#crooks #into #mercenaries #push #swamp

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#above #amazing #clouds #crooked #dangerous