We're far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An environmental setting developed over millions of years must be considered to have some merit. Anything so complicated as a planet, inhabited by more than a million and a half species of plants and animals, all of them living together in a more or less balanced equilibrium in which they continually use and reuse the same molecules of the soil and air, cannot be improved by aimless and uninformed tinkering. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: life progress animals harmony plants air equilibrium Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: music the world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. —Monica Piper More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: truth belief lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The law is above the law, you know. —Dorothy Salisbury Davis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Gerry's friends, you see, had no confidence in the United States judicial system. They did not seem comfortable in the courtroom, and this increased their unreliability in the eyes of judge and jury. If you trust the authorities, they trust you back, it seems. —Louise Erdrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and . . . they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called "cantankerous," "crazy," "hysterical," "uppity," or "duped." Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, fifty is a movement. —Carol Tavris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: politics power responsibility policy circumstances Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: extremism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win. —Andrew Kopkind More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never eat more than you can lift. —Miss Piggy More about this quote Tags: strength food eating gluttony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: happiness wealth contentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am immensely and continuously conscious of a world of nuclear bombs, of vast hunger, of curable injustice, of a meretricious press and cheap-jack television, of perilous and apparently endless international division, of unreasonable cruelty and suffering for which almost nobody cares, and of my own silly efforts to make money to provide me with irrelevant comforts or necessities like drink and to ensure some measure of security for my family. And I know that it is not the answer, because there is truthfully only one answer, which is absolute pacifism and absolute communism — not in the dreary, dogmatic party-political sense, but in the sense that my father would have called religious: the sense of mortal community. Not only do I know it; I knew it all along. —James Cameron More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich. —Jean Craighead George More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email