Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Quotable Quote


"A society that listens to its children is degenerate" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

19 comments:

ChillFin said...

i cannot locate that quote or any part of that quote attributed to anyone. Sources please.

George W. Potts said...

It wasn't in his writings. It was a response to a reporter's question as re what he thought about Ameruca. See comments under latest Diplomad 2.0.

ChillFin said...

So a comment on a blogsite by an unknown (CelticCouple) with no data on their link says "I remember reading years ago..." which references no specific document or even source gets elevated into status as a Quotable Quote even though no research of those key words has no attribution to that man. That's good enough for me...

DEN said...

Fake Quote.

George W. Potts said...

I'm puzzled ... why would they make this up? This is the kind of attribution we get in the NYT every day.

ChillFin said...

So why is this unattributed quote now your featured post? If you say it often enough, with enough conviction, it will NOT become true.

ChillFin said...

I heard that Abraham Lincoln once said "The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true."

George W. Potts said...

The quote is, in fact, attributed. It is the chain of evidence that is in question.

ChillFin said...

Attributed to who? There is no where or when or what media for the quote. The commenter identified as CelticCouple has a null identity: https://www.blogger.com/profile/06435629455810446239

ChillFin said...

The ALLEDGED quote is attributed. I grant that.

George W. Potts said...

And yet you both eat what the Globe feeds you without a taster?

ChillFin said...

"Both"? Who? Are you projecting my views on my wife? She has tuned out the news entirely, resorting to 1940-1960 movies and TV, fiction novels, Jeopardy, and Judge Judy.

ChillFin said...

The Boston Globe has collapsed into a set of postings from NYT, WaPo, Reuters, AP, and some local news stories.

George W. Potts said...

You and DEN ...

ChillFin said...

Sure i read the Globe, my hometown paper. Also the NYT, WAPO, and the WSJ. And Breitbart, FoxNews, InfoWars, Coulter, Carr, and Politico. And the Economist, Engadget, Wired, and the Guardian. And BBC, Reason, the Atlantic, the Hill, and the Daily Beast, Drudge, Narativ, the Diplomad... and Fletchblog. What do yiu read?

ChillFin said...

Also RealClear with its great variety of top-drawer links daily. and drudge.

ChillFin said...

And Funny Times.

George W. Potts said...

Because of my failing sight, I can not read newspapers or magazines ... only on-line stuff I can blow up on my IPad.

ChillFin said...

i have not touched a physical newspaper or magazine in years. Online rules