People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the "miracle of birth" should come witness the "miracle of death" performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country. —Phyllis Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If cats could talk, they wouldn't. —Nan Porter More about this quote Tags: cats talk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Peacekeeper missile." Doesn't that sound like "ax-murderer baby sitter"? —Elayne Boosler More about this quote Tags: peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says, "To whom it may concern. —Anonymous resident of Belfast, Ireland, quoted in the London Guardian, 1991 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is nonexistent; hence social harmony is but a myth. . . . Thus the entire arsenal of government — laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons — is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. —African proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who are racially marginalized are like the miner's canary: their distress is the first sign of a danger that threatens us all. —Gerald Torres and Lani Guinier More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. —Ralph Ellison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera. —Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle More about this quote 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 Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I walk past a little gangbanger, I don't even flinch. But I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. . . . Cutting through the projects, you might just lose what you have on you that day, but I ain't never been mugged of my future. No thug ever ran up on me: "Give me your 401(k). . . . I want your college fund, your ira. I want it all. —Wanda Sykes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Japan, the highest-paid executive earns only fifteen times what the average worker does. Here, ceos earn five hundred times more. That's supposed to motivate the American worker. To do what, kidnap his boss? —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. . . . It is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in our coat. —C.C. Colton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As long as there are some people who wish to believe . . . that they are too good to do their own work and clean up after themselves, then somebody else is going to have to do the work and the cleaning up. . . . If some people grow rich by making things to throw away, then many other people will have to empty the garbage cans and make the trip to the dump. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle-class. If your name is on your shirt, you're poor. —Rich Hall More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email