#reason

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#voting #reason

Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you--just a tad--off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much--too tiring--and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy...or whatever...to happen. ↗

— Jay Asher

#reason

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. ↗

— Harper Lee

#reason

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#tradition #reason

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. ↗

— Alan Moore

#reason

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hst #reason

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#feelings #reason #reason

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. ↗

— Norton Juster

#philosophy #quest #reason

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#political #profiteering #treason #military