[A] fistful of business cards does not a community make…It needs to mean caring for and helping each other too, not just hustling.
~~from The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
"Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless."
~~Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish Tribe, Washington Territory, U.S., 1854
"The problem with an anarchic perspective, of course, is that anything it establishes is likely to have a short life span…[and its] leaders…all…[tend] to be authoritarian."
~~from Octavia Gone by Jack McDevitt
Laws aren't natural phenomena. They have particular and often horrific histories. Ever heard of the Nuremberg Laws? Ever heard of Jim Crow?
~~from Red Clocks: A Novel by Leni Zumas
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
"There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons."
~~ Ronald Reagan, May 2, 1967, U.S. President (1981-1989) and Governor of Calif. (1967-1975)
"Wealth that stands on misery is no wealth at all--it is only the sickness of an empty soul."
~~from "The Ones Who Walk Away from the Ones Who Walk Away," by David Gerrold, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, November/December 2021 issue
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
~~from TheDispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin