Great & Meaningful Quotes

[officerripley]

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they may never sit."
~~attributed to a lot of people

 

[officerripley]

[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

 

[officerripley]

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
~~Kurt Vonnegut

 

[officerripley]

"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

 

[officerripley]

"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

 

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[officerripley]

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

 

[officerripley]

Trickle down economics has never gotten billionaires to spread the wealth. That's what unions are for.
~~TheOther98

 

[Paco Dennis]

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.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[officerripley]

Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.
~~Ken Follett

 

[officerripley]

"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)

 

[SmoothSeas]

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[JonSR77]

Ben Franklin Quotes...

https://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/famous-quotes

and here's one:

1. “It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.”
   - Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
   

 

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[officerripley]

"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

 

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"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 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

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"'Witch' is the label society slaps on women it can't understand or control."
~~from The Change by Kirsten Miller

 

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