The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you've got the political power to reinforce them. —Penny Skillman More about this quote Tags: politics power fantasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All civilization ever does is hide the blood and cover up hate with pretty words. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American Dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. —Alan Alda as Hawkeye on M*A*S*H More about this quote Tags: technology freedom democracy achievement America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact is I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. —Norman Mailer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During my second year of nursing school, our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. —Joann C. Jones More about this quote Tags: attention career school class care smile Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. —Elizabeth Wray Taylor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: kinship living soul prison men class better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One man's ceiling is another man's floor. —Paul Simon More about this quote Tags: perspective ceiling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty. —Luciano De Crescenzo More about this quote Tags: humanity love freedom liberty Christianity smell neighbor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Throughout recorded time . . . there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: history society wealth class division Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What may be wealth to an individual may not be wealth to a community. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: wealth community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can you say you have fulfilled the law and prophets, when it is written in the law that you should love your neighbor as yourself? Look, many of your brothers, sons of Abraham, are covered with filth and dying of hunger. Meanwhile your own house is filled with goods, and not a thing goes out of it to them. —Origen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People had changed — or rather fridges had changed them. Mrs. Munde felt that being able to store food for longer periods had broken down the community spirit. There was no need to share now, no need to meet every day, gathering your veg or killing a few rabbits. —Jeanette Winterson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email