The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. —Robert M. Pirsig More about this quote Tags: progress change heart head hands improve Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: pleasure dullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. —Alan Paton More about this quote Tags: freedom progress democracy surrender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied, or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: heart economics head Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. —Jean Anouilh More about this quote Tags: power wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. —Herbert Marcuse More about this quote Tags: love capitalism Marxism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The equality of the capitalist and the laborer is the same as the equality of two fighters, when the hands of one are bound, while a gun is put into the hands of the other, and equal conditions are strictly observed for both in the fight. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: equality capitalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships —W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. —Freda Adler More about this quote Tags: power ethics crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: truth economics emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath if they could not pay for air? —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: economics wealth greed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: sadness wealth comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him that if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. —Mary "Mother" Jones More about this quote Tags: politics economics USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't agonize. Organize. —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: progress organization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Tags: action locusts watching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email