no. 630

“To create something is to make something that has never existed before. There is nothing more vulnerable than that.”

Brené Brown.

no. 629

"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."

Ann Richards.

no. 628

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to  sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. " 

Anatole France

no. 627

“The quality of a civilisation depends upon its ability to discern and reveal truth, and this depends upon the scope and purity of its language. Any dictator attempts to degrade the language because this is a way to mystify.” 

Iris Murdoch

no. 626

“The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough.”

Eugene Debs

no. 625

“If you want to move the center, you have to pull from one end.”

David Roberts, journalist

no. 624

"I'm not so much a trophy wife; more of a participation trophy wife."

rachelle mandik on Twitter

no. 623

"It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant."

Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny (p. 73). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.

no. 622

“If I were to write a 50-page text on how to think about class in the 21st century, I would begin by saying the problem of class is not the problem of the poor, the working class or the middle class. It’s the problem of the ruling class — of a capitalist class that’s so immensely wealthy that they are capable of destroying the world as a side effect of their private pursuit of gain.”

Erik Olin Wright 1947-2019

no. 621

“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”

G. K. Chesterton

no. 620

"And that's what civilization is. A complex set of rules detailing who is allowed to steal from who."

Sam Starfall in the webcomic "Freefall" (comic #fv03174)

no. 619

Patricia: "My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."

From the film "Joe vs. the Volcano"

no. 618

"Yes what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" 

David Mitchell

no. 617

"All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."

Warren Beatty in "Bulworth"

no. 616

“It is a hopeless misjudgement to think that one could force a dictatorial regime upon the German nation. The diversity of the German people calls for democracy.”

- Theodor Wolff, Prominent German journalist, January 1933

Proving journalists are far from omniscient

no. 615

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

Martin Luther King

no. 614

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people, it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

James Baldwin

no. 612

"You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure."

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

no. 611

"...sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself, that's what sin is."
     "It's a lot more complicated than that-"
     "No. It aint. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried they wont like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
     "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes-"
     "But they starts with thinking about people as things..."

From Terry Pratchett's book Carpe Jugulum

no. 610

“The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.”

Eugene V. Debs