Joe Bageant quotes

“The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda”
-- Joe Bageant

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.58, Broadway Books

#Ignorance Quotes #Political Quotes #Four Quotes

“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.”
-- Joe Bageant

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books

#Exercise Quotes #Class Quotes #Doors Quotes

“You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door”
-- Joe Bageant

#Doors Quotes #Trying Quotes #Prison Quotes

“Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.”
-- Joe Bageant

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.13, Broadway Books

#Mind Quotes #Generations Quotes #Scar Quotes

“They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.”
-- Joe Bageant

#Christian Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Redneck Quotes

“The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.”
-- Joe Bageant

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.76, Broadway Books

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Driving Quotes

“Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.”
-- Joe Bageant

#Thinking Quotes #Icons Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.”

“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”

Source : Time magazine, November 01, 1963.

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

Source : The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.

“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”

“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”

“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.”

“In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded”

Source : The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.39, Broadway Books

“The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.”

“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.”

Source : "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”