I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Tags: love religion worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: knowledge ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. —Ray Bradbury More about this quote Tags: wonder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: silence talk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed. —Langston Hughes More about this quote Tags: USA dreams aspiration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is it altogether a Utopian dream that once in history a ruling class might be willing to make the great surrender and permit social change to come about without hatred, turmoil, and waste of human life? —Upton Sinclair More about this quote Tags: politics power change turmoil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All the laws made for the betterment of workers’ lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened, wages go up, conditions are better — only if the workers protest. —Mary Heaton Vorse More about this quote Tags: politics progress workers' rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During the contest for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, John F. Kennedy visited a mine in West Virginia. “Is it true you’re the son of one of our wealthiest men?” asked one of the miners there. Kennedy admitted that this was true. “Is it true that you’ve never wanted for anything and had everything you wanted?” “I guess so,” Kennedy replied. “Is it true you’ve never done a day’s work with your hands all your life?” Kennedy nodded. “Well, let me tell you this,” said the miner. “You haven’t missed a thing.” —Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: power work wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act; he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that “they” will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that “they” would never allow it. Who were “they”? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently “they” were omnipotent. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: power poverty powerlessness they Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The rich are never threatened by the poor — they do not notice them. —Marie de France More about this quote Tags: poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my experience, middle-class Americans do not feel at ease around poor people. Even people of high ideals who care about the needy experience discomfort in the presence of the needy themselves. —Rabbi Eliezer Finkelman More about this quote Tags: poverty class discomfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, “That person I see is a savage monster”; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the ceo of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving twenty hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: politics power economics corporations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man’s shoulders. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: oppression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Tags: housework torture cleaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email