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Good Quotes:
Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power.
Science is a journey of discovery, not a path to confirmation.
anonymous
The biggest threat to America today is moving towards a fascist theocracy.
Frank Zappa
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston Churchill
War breaks us. It detaches us from our core humanity. War removes us from ourselves and programs us to find enemies in anyone or anything that is unfamiliar. It robs us of our humanity and empathy. War poisons our hearts, minds, and spirits. It reduces us to cold shells - unfeeling, unloving - of ourselves first and then others, and back around. We can break that cycle though. The opposite of war is creation, nurturing, and healing. When we do our work to slow down, feel, and see ourselves in others, we can end wars. But we all have to do it. We all have to do the work to end wars.
Letty Martinez, as quoted by Nancy Hill
"The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative."
Malcolm X
1963
"Loneliness is not when you don't have people around. Loneliness occurs when you cannot find yourself inside you."
Renuka Gavrani
“There’s not a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk.”
Jamie Raskin
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
Harper Lee
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough"
Toni Morrison
The US is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests. It is now a petrostate.
Michael Moore
Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.
1984 - George Orwell
"When you are accustomed to privilege, then equality feels like oppression."
Arwa Mahdawi
Fret not because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers
for they will soon fade like the grass; and wither like the green herb
Those who trouble their own household will inherit the wind;
and the fool shall be the servant to the wise of heart
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
Banksy
Order, tranquility, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, good connection with family and friends, lots of positivity, and staying away from toxic people
Advice from the Oldest Person on the planet
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Why are so many people seemingly happy to give away their personal information and power to increasingly authoritarian forces? And why are they so confident that this power will never be used against them?
The world would be so much better if we would love one another, treat one another right.
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
Nelson Mandela
“My son, everything works out in the end. If it hasn't, it’s because it's not the end.”
Fernando Sabino
A person who has a 'good side' for you to be on doesn't really have a good side.
anonymous
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
Rosa Parks
a rule of life:
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control;
underneath the vine, there needs to be a trellis
St. Benedict
The problem with man is that we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
E. O. Wilson
'The father of biodiversity.'
Corporate media coverage of politics is an effort to manufacture fantastical and complex sagas of intrigue, subterfuge, and mystery out of the very simple task of corrupt politicians enriching their donors.
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Popularity is the sweet dessert of ego’s delusion.
Rachel Hackenberg
"Consumerism is attaching our heart to the acquisition of new and better things. It’s our preoccupation with novel goods or experiences. It’s the (usually) silent, buried belief that if we can buy enough or travel enough or have the right experiences or the most interesting friends, we can make ourselves whole."
Climate change is real, it’s human-caused, its impacts are serious and there are solutions if we act now.
"Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilize racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection."
Woolhandler, Himmelstein, et. al.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
"...a ploy to keep the poor of all races fighting each other instead of the system that disempowers them—continues to mold our thinking and our actions."
Jennifer Brownell
"When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, without pain. What I want also wants me."
Rumi
"More is achieved by love than hate.
Hate is the downfall of any race or nation."
In the end, she earned the Medaille de la Résistance Avec Palme, the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d’Honneur, and was buried in the Pantheon. A true French heroine born in St. Louis Missouri, she aided and fought as a courageous agent for the French Resistance and reported directly to Jacques Abtey (who reported to Charles de Gaulle), head of French counterintelligence in WWII. She was the only American woman ever to receive full French military honors at her funeral.
The only difference between a heretic and a prophet is timing.
All work has dignity. All work can be a ministry.
“Our mistakes make us who we are, and teach us who we can be. Without bad choices, we can’t be wholly human."
Jonathan Martinis, the senior director for law and policy at a center for disability rights at Syracuse University
When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
Extraordinary conservatism keeps us extraordinarily ignorant.
"When I'm watchin' my TV
And a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me"
The Rolling Stones
The story of life is quicker
Than the blink of an eye.
The story of love is hello and goodbye.
Until we meet again.
Jimi Hendrix
'reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning'
C. S. Louis
Comfort is a form of suicide.
Don't underestimate me because I'm quiet.
I know more than I say, think more than I speak, and observe more than you know.
Michaela Chung
Hell must be empty because all the devils are in here.
Ariel, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
Spencer W. Kimball
Music comes from an icicle
as it melts
to live again
as spring water
Henry Williamson
Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis
...a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry...
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Worth Noting: The Democratic Party is just as addicted to 'dark money', otherwise AOC would be the President.