The President

"How willingly would I exchange places today with the soldier who sleeps on the ground in the army of Potomac."

- Abraham Lincoln as quoted by Schuyler Colfax

Freedom of Speech

"If my offended feelings can justify a travel ban on Donald Trump, I have no moral grounds on which to argue that those offended by feminism, or the fight for transgender rights, or universal suffrage, should not oppress campaigners for those causes."
"If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification."

 - J.K. Rowling on petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK.

Old values

"It is hard to promise, but it is easy to perform."

-  Count Gyula Andrassy, Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary

Tempurpedic

The biggest scam in the home furnishings history. The most expensive mattress made from the least expensive components (or at least the least expensive manufacturing process).

- MG

Spies for the people

"This is what we are: spies for the people. If states have their intelligence agencies to spy on us and control us, should the people and history itself also not have their own counterintelligence?"

- Julian Assange on Wikileaks role; Delo, Ljubljana 12/08/2013

Zimmerman

When you are defending yourself after being provoked and  attacked on your own turf, that is called self defense.
When you go to other guy's turf and provoke him to attack you (or just simply shoot him) believing he poses the threat to you, that is called preemptive strike.

MG

IT Kadija

It looks like one more step towards the old one:
"Kadija te tuži, kadija ti sudi!"
That step could be called:  
"Kadija te špijunira!"

Our daily arms

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

- Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A. vice president

p.s.: Yee Haw, we are going back to the wild west days.
On a more serious note: if we are all armed, how do you determine prior to shooting who is the bad guy, because in our minds we are all good guys.
As far as I'm concerned this was only fun while watching the western movies.

Evolution

"In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature."

 - Nikola Tesla

Ignorance

"Are you talking about the North Korea, the bad guys? Why did we allow them to participate in the first place?"

- My co-worker's comment on hearing that North Korea was in 3rd place by total number of medals won in the beginning of the London Olympics

Dead Peasant Insurance

Can human race sink any lower? (If those guys are members of human race at all). And who's to say that one day those companies will not contract some thugs to start slowly eliminating us only for the sake of their own profit. And our own representatives in Washington will not even blink. If this had happened elsewhere in the world they would all cry genocide. What do they considered it here?

Healthcare

Whether we in America do end up paying extra or not, whether Obama is honest or just another crooked politician, is irrelevant at this point in the development of our health care system. We are too deep into the business of healing.

How do we solve this? We can't, short of wiping out the present system of health insurance, and all insurance companies with it. When are we going to learn that business of insuring is just what those two words mean: the business for their owners and insurance (or gamble, betting against your own health) for the rest of us. Simply put, nobody should profit from someone's misfortune.

p.s.: Does anyone still remember the doctors from yesteryear making routine house calls not charging for them but taking whatever the patient was able to pay? Is 'Hyppocratic Oath' a long forgotten statement of moral conduct of the people we entrust our lives to?

Integrity

"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking."
- C.K.

My life credo

"Tuđe nećemo; svoje nedamo."

- Josip Broz Tito

Bernard Madoff's Case

Somehow I have this funny feeling that if bunch of little guys like you and I were majority of losers here, "poor old Bernie" would still be a free and honorable man and he might even ask for bailout money. It's the big guns who lost that brought him down, and no one knows who they really are.

Greed

Humans are the only creatures on earth that "want" more than they can use or “need”. No other animal will kill another one just for the heck of it, it will eat it. No wild animal will break a tree branch without a reason: it will eat the leaves or the fruit off of it. An animal will attempt to encroach on another ones turf, but only for the sake of survival, the food and the natural “need” for continuation of its specie. They can't lie, cheat, swindle and deceit one another in order to better themselves, like we do. Wait till they discover money. We have.

That's why things are the way they are. That's why there is greed. Need to grab for more. Through money comes power. The more money one has the higher he gets up the corporate or social ladder. The higher he gets the more subjects are left beneath to be controlled. The higher one gets the fiercer the battle for the top. Only the greediest (most successful), will win. Greed became an inevitable and necessary component of modern society.

The rest of us will follow suit guided by glitz and glamor that greedy are surrounded by. Does that make us less or as greedy? Why do religious people participate in everyday game of wanting more than they really need knowing of it being a deadly sin? And why is it that those same people created the biggest oxymoron on this subject by imprinting “In God we trust” on our currency? Is it, maybe, because we have invented a new term for greed: “success”. Well, then this is a typical case of mass hypocrisy. It is part of human nature. We call it civilization.

Search

"I am just looking for a human being."
- Diogenes

Give it a shot

"Do not do to others what you would not do to yourself."
- Kong Qiu