no. 640

"Secrecy is the cornerstone of all tyranny." 

Robert Heinlein

no. 639

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."

Mary Wollstonecraft

no. 638

"We all have our limits. I can’t save the world. I can’t stop this war. Maybe, just maybe, I can communicate a few things through art.”

Ginny, in Kate Eliot's book, An Earthly Crown

no. 637

“An enemy is not he who injures, but he who wishes to do so.” —DEMOCRITUS OF ABDERA

from Kate Eliot’s book “Jaran”

no. 636

“Most of the universe sucks. This is the only good planet. I mean, this is the only planet with whiskey and all my friends live here.” 

NASA scientist, @DrKateMarvel

no. 635

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."

Thomas Pynchon

no. 634

“But, sir, honoring his legacy is about the preservation of fire, not the worship of ashes.”

@LFredenhall on Twitter

no. 633

"As crimes pile up they become invisible." 

Bertolt Brecht

no. 632

"It's never what a man says that’s important. It’s what he does."

Daniel Winters in Michael Anderle's book The Horsemen Gather

no. 631

"One person with passion is better than 40 people merely interested."

E.M. Forster

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