#crooked

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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

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

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


Friedrich Nietzsche


#crooked #god #makes #straight #thought

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

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.


Steve Allen


#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.


Mikhail Bakunin


#banks #carried #crooked #deals #enormous

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.


Chanakya


#cut #dealings #down #forest #going

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.


Edmond de Goncourt


#crooked #english #french #honest #individuals

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.


Immanuel Kant


#crooked #entirely #made #man #nothing

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.


Robert Wyatt


#crooked #did #early #gangster #get