Class

Like FDR, Obama is a traitor to his class: the difference being of course that Roosevelt hailed from the Dutchess County ruling class while our current President has managed to betray the broad middle class of his rather more humble origin.
--Frunobulax Chicago

Consumers

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.
--Steve Jobs

Broken Fixed

Here in America, we have a deeply divided body politic. Half the population believes our election system is broken. The other half believes it is fixed.
--Swami Beyondananda (aka Steve Bhaerman)

Outcomes

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
--Enrico Fermi

Sane Purposes

Religion traffics in ideas that are intrinsically divisive, intrinsically insensitive to the actual details of human and animal suffering, and in many cases purposed toward an afterlife that doesn't exist. That combination of traits leads to a kind of callous disregard for the sane purposes that we would otherwise form for collaboration in this world.
--Sam Harris

New Is Old

But the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow men. Thus the new in art is always formed out of the old.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ours

There are, however, still some married couples who understand themselves as belonging to their marriage, to each other, and to their children....To them, "mine" is not so powerful or necessary a pronoun as "ours."
--Wendell Berry

Authority

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.
--George Carlin

Can't Spend

Growing inequality in most countries of the world has meant that money has gone from those who would spend it to those who are so well off that, try as they might, they can't spend it all.
--Joseph Stiglitz

Some Kiss

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, 
the touch of spirit on the body.
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Is To...

Packing is to traveling as rain is to rainbows as childbirth is to having a child.
--Joy Pecknold

Breaking

In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
--Stanley Kunitz

Free

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.
--Tony Kushner

People

People have the power
To redeem the work of fools
Upon the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule.
--Patti Smith