The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
George Bernard Shaw
September 17, 2018
There’s no question about it: the corporate conservatives and their allies in the political and religious right are achieving a vast transformation of American life that only they understand because they are its advocates, its architects, and its beneficiaries, in creating the greatest economic inequality in the advanced world. They have saddled our nation, our states, and our cities and counties with structural deficits that will last until our children’s children are ready for retirement and they are systematically stripping government of all its functions except rewarding the rich and waging war.
Bill Moyers
September 13, 2018
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognises liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
B.R. Ambedkar
September 11, 2018
If the choice is between a god-bothering dog-whistler and a gender-whisperer, I’ll take the latter every time.
Arthur Baker
September 10, 2018
The far right, where politicians are spending so much energy harvesting votes these days is not Australia. Nearly all of us are somewhere else, scattered around the centre, waiting for a government that will take this good, prosperous, generous country into the future.
David Marr
September 2, 2018
Coal is to Australian politics as guns are to US politics.
Simon Holmes à Court
August 31, 2018
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
August 31, 2018
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
Søren Kierkegaard
August 27, 2018
A couple of particularly aggressive attacks on multiculturalism in Australia’s parliament today. As the saying goes, if you ever wondered how you’d have reacted to the rise of German Nazism, you’re doing it now.
Meshel Laurie
August 15, 2018
[on the National Energy Guarantee] It's so disappointing for our young people that such a huge decision is reduced to these schoolyard tactics and point scoring, when what we know, is a big investment should be made in renewables.
