If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? - George Carlin

The reason I prefer the sledgehammer to the rapier and the reason I believe in blunt, violent, confrontational forms for the presentation of my ideas is because I see that what’s happening to the lives of people is not rapierlike, it is not gentle, it is not subtle. It is direct, hard and violent. The slow violence of poverty, the slow violence of untreated disease. Of unemployment, hunger, discrimination. This isn’t the violence of some guy opening fire with an Uzi in a McDonald’s and forty people are dead. The real violence that goes on every day, unheard, unreported, over and over, multiplied a millionfold.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. (206)

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach a military age. Then they think you're just fine, just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want alive babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. These people are not pro-life, they're just anti-woman, simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state and war machine.