Quote of the Day for 2016-03-08

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

— William Inge (1860-1954) "The Idea of Progress," Romanes Lecture (1920)

Preparing hog carcasses for hair removal in the Chicago Meatpacking district (1890)

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-18

"Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival."

— W.R. Inge (1860-1954) "Democracy and the Future," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1922

George W. Bush aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln during his infamous Mission Accomplished speech (May 1, 2003)