Stop

Remember, the Republicans aren't threatening economic calamity, because they want to rein in spending. They're threatening economic calamity, because they want to stop poor and sick Americans from getting health insurance.
--Matthew O'Brien

Inferiors

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
--Plato

Neutrality

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
--Elie Weisel

What You Love

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
--Robert Anton Wilson

Injuries

I just don't have the same energy to be as neurotic. You have to put triage on your injuries.
--Junot Díaz

Change

Temporary despair can be a useful response to life: To feel for a time that you are completely defeated and there is no hope can actually be a precursor to meaningful change.
--Cary Tennis

Conscience

The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience.
--Pope Francis

Suspend

Having it all are moments in life when you suspend judgment. It's when I attain that elusive thing called peace of mind.
--Delia Ephron

Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
--Alan Watts

Bullshit

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit.
--Harry Crews

Love Something

It should be known that it is impossible for human nature not always to love something.
--Origen (3rd century theologian)

Phone

It makes me sad that there are moments in our lives where we're not present because we're looking at a phone.
--Charlene deGuzman

Racism

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
--Benjamin Jealous

Suffering

The only thing worse than assuming you could get the better of suffering, I began to think (though I'm no Buddhist), is imagining you could do nothing in its wake.
--Pico Iyer

Ridiculous

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
--Guglielmo Marconi (1912)

National

Only with the struggle for national self-determination did it come to be believed that every human being had to belong to a group defined in opposition to others.
--John Gray

Eight

Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments (or "10 Judeo-Christian Moral Injunctions You Need in Your Life Right Now") was surely aware that it could just as well have been eight, or eleven, or seventy-seven commandments.
--Mark O'Connell

Dystopia

Whatever technological dystopia awaits us, it's at once hilarious and mortifying to think that the road there might be paved with asinine status updates, cat pictures and listicles.
--Willy Staley

History

History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.
--Seamus Heaney

Invaded

Man, I wish Bush was the president. He would have reacted right away. He may have invaded Cyprus or Jordan instead of Syria by mistake, but you know he would have done something at least.
--Abu Bassam (resident of Homs, Syria)