If Ya Don’t Stand For Something, You’ll Die For Nothing – TBC

Apparently James McNeill Whistler, who is known for his iconic portrait of his mother, was at a party that was also attended by Oscar Wilde who was known as one of the great and ribald wits of the nineteenth century. Oscar Wilde was occasionally accused of appropriating the clever expressions spoken by others. During the party, Whistler made a humorous remark and the following statements were exchanged:

Oscar Wilde : “I wish I’d said that”

Whistler : You will, Oscar, you will”

Good quotes typically originate from intelligent people and are cited to add gravitas to the thoughts and utterances of others. Clever people change the quotes to put their own stamp on them to claim the original as their own or piggy back on the intelligent original. Idiots use the quotes and hope that nobody notices their plagiarism. Good quotes that give no credit to the original, cover or mask idiocy. Idiots abound.

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything” – Gordon A. Eadie

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything” – Peter Marshall

“You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything” – Ginger Rogers

“You have to stand for something or you fall for everything” – Angelique Kidjo

“Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the earth during your sojourn” – Marian Wright Edelman

“If we don’t stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything” – Irene Dunne

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything” – Malcom X

“The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here” – Seth Godin

“Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem” – Jodie Foster

“If you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing” – Mel Thompson

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?” – Joni Mitchell

I’ve researched these related quotes and have found none that match exactly the title of this piece. I stake my claim to this quote. Consider it to be copy written. I don’t do this out of arrogance. It popped into my scrambled head and stuck because it matches my outlook on life. I refuse to “Shuffle off this mortal coil” ( from a Shakespeare play ) without making a stand for something. I refuse to lie back and await the death I do not fear. There are so many very real threats to the lives of many by a very few. ‘This Mortail Coil’ was a great collective of musicians. Listen to ‘Song of the Siren’.

When the death I do not fear comes, I hope to be remembered as someone who stood for something, for right hopefully, and that I did not die for nothing, quivering and quaking, waiting for permission to die or coerced into taking experimental drugs that will surely kill me and those I love. The recently minted Liberal Bill C-7 is designed to shorten and end lives deemed by Fascist Liberals as useless under ‘ The Great Reset ‘. Fascist Liberals are desperately trying to coin new politically correct terms for Genocide and Democide. ‘Cultural Cleaning’ will replace ‘Cultural Revolution’. ‘Life Celebration’ will replace ‘Euthanasia’. This is, of course, assuming that ended lives and their histories aren’t whooshed away down the memory holes that are being deployed as the latest crisis unfolds and The Great Reset advances.