Quotations from G.E. Nordell

author • philosopher • revolutionary

G.E. Nordell is author of the 'Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment', the Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005], the Rick Walker noir detective novels, and other works. He lives atop a mesa in central New Mexico, overlooking the Rio Grande River.

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Index of G.E. Nordell's Writings

“Whosoever is righteous or violent – or both – is the enemy of Objective Reason
and Free Choice and Empowerment.”  {Issue #10}
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“Freedom exists in the exercise thereof.”  {Issues #11 & #56 & #70}
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“Truth be told, druthers are hard to come by.”  {Issue #17}
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“Life is too short to be kissing frogs, much less to be kissing
the asses of frogs.”  {Issue #19}
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“The term 'group think' is an oxymoron.”  {Issue #20}
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“A man is judged by his Values; his Values are marked
by that which he will not compromise.”  {Issue #22}
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“Each and every religion is a delusion and dishonest at the core.”  {Issue #22}
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“God is in the Silence.”  {Issues #22 & #30}
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“If a tree falls in the forest, you won't hear it if your head is up your ass.”  {Issue #26}
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“Evil is simply the dis-empowerment of oneself or another being.”  {Issue #27}
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“The Biblical Ten Commandments are incomplete; for example, there
should be an Eleventh Commandment to 'Honor thy children'.”  {Issue #28}
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“Freud asked 'What do women want?' That has been answered: Women want security;
men want adventure. Said another way, men tend to be hunters
and women tend to be gatherers.”  {Issue #31}
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“Your job as a parent or caregiver is to make certain that your children
know absolutely that you love them.”  {Issue #33}
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“Except for election day, politics is all show business.”  {Issues #34 & #64}
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“Just because the establishment is mad at you, it doesn't mean that you're
a rebel or a revolutionary.”  {Issue #36}
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“There is a difference between the two major U.S. political parties: The Democrats enact bad laws intended to benefit everyone, and the Republicans enact bad laws intended to benefit themselves.”  {Issue #36}
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Garrison Kiellor: “There's a lot of human nature in everyone.”
G.E. Nordell: “... to which I say: 'A little human nature goes a long way'.”  {Issue #36}
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“And on the eighth day, the Lord God said 'Let there be boogie!'.”  {Issue #36}
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Nordell's Hypothesis: “If things were different, things would be different.”  {Issue #36}
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Gloria Steinem: “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
G.E Nordell: “Let's not be sexist: A man needs a woman like a fish needs a bicycle.”  {Issue #36}
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“Marriage isn't a job, it's an adventure.”  {Issue #38}
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“Ideas – even good ideas – are a dime per hundred; it is action that matters.”  {Issue #39}
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“Labor is the source of all wealth.”  {Issues #40 & #61 & #71}
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“The only thing, I say, that Marx and Engels got right is that
'You have nothing to lose but your chains'.”  {Issue #40}
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“Beware the National Debt: It is a rising tide that sinks all boats.”  {Issue #41}
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“We need to tighten the rules. So how about a 12th Commandment
that says 'Thou shalt not cheat'?”  {Issue #41}
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“For the 13th Commandment: Though shalt not take thyself too damn seriously.”  {Issue #42}
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“Life is supposed to be a cabaret; for a while there, LUV was a truck;
now Liberty is a car sold by Jeep.”  {Issue #42}
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“Anyone who votes for George Dubya Bush is dumber than he is.”  {Issue #45}
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“If Dubya wins, America loses.”  {Issues #46 & #47}
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“Love is something that you give to others.”  {Issue #49}
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“Television rots your brain.”  {Issue #49}
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“Homosexuality is a non-issue.”  {Issue #49}
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“The existentialist acts rightly for no reason.”  {Issue #49 & blog 8/2008}
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“It is okay to love people: real love is free.”  {Issue #49}
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“Possession of a closed mind is an act of treason against humanity.”  {Issue #51}
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“God is a snob. He (or She) refuses to talk to existentialists.”  {Issue #51}
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“Where the Oligarchy is in power, the First Amendment is null and void in the workplace.”  {Issue #52}
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“Marriage is a handshake deal.”  {Issues #52 & #68}
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“Free speech is a danger to the neo-con fascists, which is why they suppress it.
Our best weapon is to speak freely and loudly and often.”  {Issue #52}
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“Correction: Better to say 'No risk, no gain'.”  {Issue #53}
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“Each and every moment is multiple choice.”  {Issue #53}
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“The old saying ‘If it ain't broke, don't fix it’ was coined by Bert Lantz. To which I say,
'You, the Individual, do not need permission to fix what is broken and to improve what is not.”  {Issue #54}
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“Fox News is an oxymoron.”  {Issue #54}
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“Dubya can’t win in Iraq, and he failed totally in Louisiana, and the same blindness that caused the thousands of deaths in New Orleans will also trigger the collapse of the world economy.”  {Issue #54}
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“This world is not a practice world.”  {Issue #55}
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“The Self is the individual who is responsible and who can tolerate risk.”  {Issue #55}
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“All that we have to do is make the people in our lives feel special; all that requires
is to tell them the truth.”  {Issue #55}
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“Action is the strongest form of communication.”  {Issue #56}
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“I have the same rights that you do, the same rights that I afford you.
We each have only the collective rights given to all.”  {Issue #56}
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“Citizens who don't vote are quitters.”  {Issue #59}
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“Capitalism is the creation of jobs and products and services.”  {Issue #60}
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“Necessity is the mother of hard work; vision is the mother of invention.”  {Issue #60}
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“Cut and run? The Republican policy is to cut taxes for the wealthy and run up the National Debt.”  {Issue #61}
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“Any U.S. citizen who does not vote is a coward and an ingrate.”  {Issues #62 & #63}
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“Demand ethical governance.”  {Issue #66}
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“How did the Right To Be Exploited become the law of the land?”   {Issue #67}
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“The only way to enter into the 'Promised Land' is to surrender to its existence.”  {Issue #67}
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“The Republican Party is proof that you can indeed fool some of the people all of the time.”  {Issue #70}
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“Freedom – Use it or lose it.”  {Issue #71}
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“I have been told my whole life to be concerned for What Other People Think. But I came up with
a better idea: Let other people be concerned about what *I* think. My concern – and that of each
and every Working Mind – is to Think.”  {Issue #71}
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“A teacher is proudest when surpassed by the student.”  {Issue #71}

Time Magazine cover date 17 December 2007 {on newsstands 7 December} Inbox Department [page 13] Mind Your Morals      Morality is bunk. What separates man from the beasts is the capacity to reason. Yet we seldom do – we're too busy moralizing. Reason is the only frontier left.      Gary E. Nordell      Belén, New Mexico

“Also, there is no R in team.”  {blog 12/2007}

“George W. Bush isn't the President, he just plays one on television.”  {blog 12/2007}

“Reality is not negotiable.”  {blog 12/2007}
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“There is not one Republican today who can be trusted.”  {blog 2/2008}
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“The Revolution is never over, the Class War is perpetual. Which side are you on?”  {blog 4/2008 & 3/2010}
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"Machiavelli described ways to destroy your enemy, and those ways are very effective. Unfortunately,
the context is that everyone is your enemy, so that it is okay (and necessary) to destroy all.”  {blog 5/2008}

"When anyone in the media cites 'buzz' as their basis, the rest of the sentence
has been manufactured.”  {blog 5/2008}

"Need a job? Ask a Republican.”  {blog 5/2008}
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"In the modern U.S. of A., grease is a condiment.”  {blog 6/2008}
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"Bring home the troops. Leave the contractors.”  {blog 8/2008}
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"When somebody farts out loud, an angel gets its wings.”  {blog 2/2009}
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“People try to alter my grumpy, curmudgeonly ways by telling me that 'You attract more flies
with honey than with vinegar'. But why would I want to attract flies at all?”  {blog 4/2009}
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“Stay alert: The Republicans and the fascists lost the election in 2008,
but they did not surrender.”  {blog 4/2009}
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“The problem with 'going with the flow' is that the flow is always downhill.”  {blog 5/2009}
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“Higher education in America is designed to fashion plowshares into doorstops.”  {blog 5/2009}
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“Here's a new internet acronym: BOO! (Blame it on Obama!).”  {blog 9/2009}
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“Here's a new and useful word: 'Re(publi)tard'.”  {blog 9/2009}
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“The economy is so bad that Baskin Robbins is down to 22 flavors.”  {blog 9/2009}
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“It's a good thing that aliens have not abducted Limp Rushbaugh or Sean Vannity or Karl Rove or Glenn Beck. If they ever do, they will find sufficient justification to incinerate Planet Earth.”  {blog 11/2009}
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“There is no such thing as 'common sense': If common sense were common, things would make sense.”
{blog 1/2010}
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“I figured out why carbon credits seem like a bad idea: It is like an overweight person
paying a friend to go to the gym and exercise for them.”  {blog 4/2010}
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“At age 65, this gettin' old thing is gettin' old.”  {blog 5/2010}
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“In The Field, there is no Soap Opera; Soap Opera occurs only In The Stands.
And the same for Gossip.”  {blog 5/2010}
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“To paraphrase the Christian Bible (Matthew 16): For what is a man profited if he shall make
beaucoup bucks while transforming the planet into a cesspool.”  {blog 6/2010}
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“Science has proven the existence of global warming. So our position is like the moment
in the old tales when you smell the dragon. The only question is which way to run – run or die!
Mankind must reverse global warming or die.”  {blog 6/2010}
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“If we continue on the current path of Reality-avoidance, Mankind will be extinct
in forty years. And good riddance!”   {blog 7/2010}
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“The Republicans are fear-mongers, when in truth the only thing we really need to fear
are the Republicans and their owners, the Oligarchs.”  {blog 10/2010}
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“Live your life as a singular, existential work of art, never to be repeated.”  {blog 10/2010}
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“The price of failure is death; the price of success is death. Seek to succeed.”  {blog 11/2010}
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“Where there is oppression, Liberty must light the dark.”  {blog 12/2010}
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DICTA by G.E. Nordell
• Dream like you're going to live forever.
• Plan like no one can stop you.
• Act like the deadline is today.
• Be very thankful when anything actually works out.
{blog 1/2011}
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“I do not always drink beer, but when I do, I drink Moose Drool." He is ... Annoying Man.
His latest exploit? He goes ballooning ... with his pet bald eagle.  {blog 3/2011}
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“Any salaried employee who works more that forty hours per week is anti-labor
and a willing victim of corporate greed.”  {blog 4/2011}
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“The best form of communication – the most powerful – is Action; the second best form of communication
is Telling The Truth; the third best form of communication is Listening.”  {blog 4/2011}
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“Maybe when President Obama gets back from Ireland he can chase the snakes
out of Washington, DC.”  {blog 6/2011}
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“Spouting Tea Party propaganda does not make you a patriot, the same as getting athlete's foot
does not make you an athlete.”  {blog 9/2011}
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“Privatization is fascism, period.”  {blog 9/2011}
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“The drought in New Mexico is so bad that the big-ticket show at the arena in Albuquerque
last month was 'Disney On Dirt'.”  {blog 9/2011}

G.E. Nordell Quotations Not Yet Used on Blog

“Tempis sure does fugit.”

“The universe is a cosmic pinball machine.”

“Irony is cynicism with a pretty face.”

“Life is so often not a matter of yards, but of inches.”

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