no. 713

 

“I like your Christ.  Your Christians?  Not so much.” 

Ghandi

no. 712

 "Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, but won't give you the key, that lock is not there for your benefit."

Doctorow’s First Law (Cory Doctorow)

no. 711

 “ Heat is such a daunting problem in part because the most effective, efficient coping mechanism for humans - doing nothing - is incompatible with capitalism. “

Ed Burmilla of Gin and Tacos

no. 710

 

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Joseph Campbell 

no. 709

 “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.“

Anatole France

no. 708

“Women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.”

Gloria Steinem

no. 707

 

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

no. 706

 “America’s immense heritage of idealistic ability is squandered by a system which divides all power between the prejudices of the ignorant many and the ruthlessness of the plutocratic few.”

— Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell's America: His Transatlantic Travels and Writings A Documented Account, Volume One 1896-1945, Part II. British and American Nationalism, p. 234