Kinky Friedman Quotes
The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
Swartz, Mimi. "The Kinky Campaign." Texas Monthly, May 2006.
The nobles of the city were in rebellion and fought the English Prince of Wales. When the city was taken, the poor people as well as the nobles were executed for their part in the “rebellion.” However, the poor had no say in the matter, and it was not they who ordered the city gates shut and decided to undergo a siege, which in this case was not successful. Limoges was a heavily walled city, well provisioned for a siege, but the English had miners who undermined part of the city walls and crashed them into the moat and allowed the English to walk in easily.
Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad. He is generally regarded to be the World’s first social scientist. The largest statue in Tunisia of not of a military leader of king, but of this social scientist.
This quotation is noteworthy because it documents the mental breakdown that the great labor leader went through in his later years. He loved the workers and they loved hum. However, as he got older, he was more isolated with his personal staff and became paranoid—a problem that many highly charismatic leaders had towards the end of their careers.
This quotation so impressed Thomas Jefferson that he wrote it in his Commonplace Book.
The Whites were the old nobility and conservatives who, after the Czar had been deposed, fought a civil war for control of Russia against the Reds—the Bolsheviks. The Whites were allied with the Cossacks, a particularly vicious, and cruel groups of traditional cavalry who previously had done much of the Czar’s dirty work. They were responsible for most of the Anti-Semitic pogroms, and their affiliation with the Whites pushed most Jewish Russians to the Reds.
Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.
