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  1. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
       To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
       To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
       To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
       To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
       To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
       To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
       To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
       The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
       The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New Jersey

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience

  2. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
       To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
       To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
       To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
       To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
       To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
       To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
       To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
       The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
       The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New Jersey

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience

  3. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
       To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
       To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
       To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
       To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
       To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
       To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
       To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
       The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
       The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New Jersey

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience

  4. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
       To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
       To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
       To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
       To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
       To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
       To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
       To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
       The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
       The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New Jersey

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience

  5. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
       To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
       To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
       To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
       To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
       To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
       To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
       To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
       To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
       The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
       The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New Jersey

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience

  6. Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment

    A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education

    dorseteye.com/damning-report-f

    #FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform

  7. Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment

    A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education

    dorseteye.com/damning-report-f

    #FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform

  8. Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment

    A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education

    dorseteye.com/damning-report-f

    #FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform

  9. Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment

    A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education

    dorseteye.com/damning-report-f

    #FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform

  10. Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment

    A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education

    dorseteye.com/damning-report-f

    #FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform

  11. CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover

    @BobLefridge
    I see the bravery in Time punching up.

    And they're failing too by punching down.

    #PunchingUp #PunchingDown

  12. CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover

    @BobLefridge
    I see the bravery in Time punching up.

    And they're failing too by punching down.

    #PunchingUp #PunchingDown

  13. CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover

    @BobLefridge
    I see the bravery in Time punching up.

    And they're failing too by punching down.

    #PunchingUp #PunchingDown

  14. CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover

    @BobLefridge
    I see the bravery in Time punching up.

    And they're failing too by punching down.

    #PunchingUp #PunchingDown

  15. CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover

    @BobLefridge
    I see the bravery in Time punching up.

    And they're failing too by punching down.

    #PunchingUp #PunchingDown

  16. " In 2025, politically incorrect #comedy is not the kind of speech that’s being suppressed; no comedian is in danger of going to jail—or even taken off Netflix—for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story."

    thebaffler.com/latest/whos-lau
    #USpol #USmedia #TonyHinchcliffe #KillTony #arts #humorists #standupComedy #punchingDown #wokebashing #chasseAuxWokes #droitisation

  17. " In 2025, politically incorrect #comedy is not the kind of speech that’s being suppressed; no comedian is in danger of going to jail—or even taken off Netflix—for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story."

    thebaffler.com/latest/whos-lau
    #USpol #USmedia #TonyHinchcliffe #KillTony #arts #humorists #standupComedy #punchingDown #wokebashing #chasseAuxWokes #droitisation

  18. " In 2025, politically incorrect #comedy is not the kind of speech that’s being suppressed; no comedian is in danger of going to jail—or even taken off Netflix—for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story."

    thebaffler.com/latest/whos-lau
    #USpol #USmedia #TonyHinchcliffe #KillTony #arts #humorists #standupComedy #punchingDown #wokebashing #chasseAuxWokes #droitisation

  19. " In 2025, politically incorrect #comedy is not the kind of speech that’s being suppressed; no comedian is in danger of going to jail—or even taken off Netflix—for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story."

    thebaffler.com/latest/whos-lau
    #USpol #USmedia #TonyHinchcliffe #KillTony #arts #humorists #standupComedy #punchingDown #wokebashing #chasseAuxWokes #droitisation

  20. " In 2025, politically incorrect #comedy is not the kind of speech that’s being suppressed; no comedian is in danger of going to jail—or even taken off Netflix—for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story."

    thebaffler.com/latest/whos-lau
    #USpol #USmedia #TonyHinchcliffe #KillTony #arts #humorists #standupComedy #punchingDown #wokebashing #chasseAuxWokes #droitisation

  21. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
     
    [Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes

  22. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
     
    [Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes

  23. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
     
    [Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes

  24. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
     
    [Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes

  25. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
     
    [Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes

  26. My weekly #comic begs the question, "how do you want to be remembered?"

    Help support this by sharing and/or visiting eupologies.com

    #comic #eulogy #funeral #punchingdown

  27. My weekly #comic begs the question, "how do you want to be remembered?"

    Help support this by sharing and/or visiting eupologies.com

    #comic #eulogy #funeral #punchingdown

  28. My weekly #comic begs the question, "how do you want to be remembered?"

    Help support this by sharing and/or visiting eupologies.com

    #comic #eulogy #funeral #punchingdown

  29. My weekly begs the question, "how do you want to be remembered?"

    Help support this by sharing and/or visiting eupologies.com

  30. My weekly #comic begs the question, "how do you want to be remembered?"

    Help support this by sharing and/or visiting eupologies.com

    #comic #eulogy #funeral #punchingdown