Quote From a Book

“Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Atticus Finch
 

"…[M]ost wars: just a bunch of young men killing young men on the orders of old men. But…it [is] women who [are] left to clean it all up in the end…"

And:

"[Almost all] old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it’ll never be like that again, and they’ll never be young again, no matter what they do."

~~both from American War: A Novel by Omar El Akkad
 
"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man…It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth."
~~from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
 
"These days, loneliness is the new cancer--[considered, as cancer used to be and sometimes still is,] a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them."
~~from Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
 
"I…mind the smile-on-command directive on class grounds. Listen here, buster. It’s not my f*cking job to decorate your world, not unless you’re willing to make it so. Sure, I’ll smile. That’ll be five bucks."
~~from Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
 
"[To answer the argument that humans should escape the ecological mess we’ve made of Earth by fleeing into space to preserve human civilization: w]hat is a civilization worth if it can not protect the natural conditions that gave birth to it?"
~~from Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton
 
"Not creative enough to make up my own imaginary friends, I depended on the world’s greatest writers to distract me when the tension between my parents got too intense. I certainly couldn’t ask real live classmates to come home with me for snickerdoodles and cocoa and shattered glass."
~~from To the Stars Through Difficulties by Romalyn Tilghman
 
Paco Dennis said:
@officerripley You are finding some quotes that I really like. Thank you! :)
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Thank you, Paco Dennis! I've been keeping a quotes journal for quite some time and it's fun to go through it. It's really long and I'm not even posting a lot of it since it's p*litical, lol. If you noticed above, I was griping about not being able to post a quote without it being underlined, no matter what I did. I think I've figured out that since the journal is such an old document--orig. an MS Word 97 [!!] doc--that I've converted over to a LibreOffice doc, something in the formatting carried over in a weird way. So far, everything else I've posted's been okay, so I'm gonna stop worrying about it and chalk it up to the sweet mystery of software! :LOL: :LOL:
 
"It is...blind obedience to authority that cause[s atrocities]."
~~from Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson [An absolutely, stupendously, wonderful book; highly recommended!]
 
“Although we each believe our thoughts are specific and personal, our thoughts, fears, and desires are typical to all egos and commonly shared. In this way, it is relatively easy to read the thoughts of most humans with just a few subtle cues. Thoughts tend to run along the same worn tracks leading to the same worn conclusions. Combining this knowledge with an understanding of the types of thoughts that individuals at different levels of consciousness gravitate towards will, with experience, lead to becoming a most astute mind reader.”
- Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
 
"People, who are so clever and so capable of amazing things, have a collective moral value below that of dogs. Rare is the dog who is intrinsically mean and self-serving above all other concerns. But it is common in people. Which is why people are the most successful predators."
~~from Tahoe Payback by Todd Borg
 
"Economics is a science, yet most economists are not scientists. Economists act like p*liticians, priests, or propagandists. They ignore evidence that does not fit their paradigms. Economists want scientific prestige without the rigor. Today’s weak world [economic] growth can be traced to this imposture."
~~from The Road to Ruin: The Global Elite’s Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards
 
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