Pageant

I have accustomed myself to accepting the fact that the Super Bowl pregame is going to be the kind of militarized patriotic pageant that would have occurred had Leni Riefenstahl immigrated to Manhattan and gone to work with Don Draper.
--Charles Pierce

Stories

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
--Brené Brown

Injury

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
--Marcus Aurelius

Our Friend

Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

Snow

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
--Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

The Hour

So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
--Bob Dylan

Poverty

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
--James Baldwin

Mission

All the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have, at different times, existed in European thought. But Europeans have not carried out in practice the mission which fell to them.
--Frantz Fanon

Equally

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
--Edward Gibbon

Somewhere I Read

Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Organized

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
--Immanuel Kant

Separate

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
--William Adama

Improved

There's never anything new about death, to be sure, except its improved publicity.
--Roger Angell

Problem

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience.
--W.E.B. Du Bois

Free Speech

The joy of free speech is that we're not supposed to have to cheer everything that's said.
--Matthew Yglesias

Tied Together

Everything affects everything. It's all tied together, and the starting place hardly matters.
--Mark Bittman

Condition

To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
--Karl Marx

Alive

May I be alive when I die.
--Donald Wood Winnicott

Hell Is...

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
--Emily St. John Mandel

Changed

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
--Ursula K. Le Guin