Enlightening

I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase "politically correct" wherever we could with "treating other people with respect," and it made me smile. You should try it. It's peculiarly enlightening.
--Neil Gaiman

Back In The Church

Religion is hurting our species, it's hurting the entire world, and yet we protect it. We need to put religion in its place, which is back in the church.
--David Silverman

Know Nothing

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human reason.
--Leo Tolstoy

Suddenly

How can a seventeen-year-old like me suddenly be eighty-one?
--Lewis Wolpert

Face Today

We face today a world filled with suspicion and hatred.
--Eleanor Roosevelt (1938)

Time

Maybe time is just an unavoidable experiential illusion....We are only able to see one thing at a time in the same way that we are unable to see through walls.
--Luc Sante

Equal

All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others.
--George Orwell

Your Company

Now is the time for your loving, dear,
And the time for your company.
Now when the light of reason fails,
And fires burn on the sea.
Now in this age of confusion,
I have need for your company.
--Richard Farina

Humanize

I can't think of another way to imagine how we're going to get out of the crisis of racial hatred if it's not through the will to humanize.
--bell hooks

Dehumanize

Trump is not for me. But comparing him to Adolf Hitler, and his supporters to Nazis, inflames the wrong passions. If you dehumanize Trump's supporters, then you are just increasing the divisions in our country.
--Timothy Bal

Humor

We cannot have a meaningful revolution without humor.
--bell hooks

Passive

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
--Herman Melville

Wrong

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
--H. L. Mencken

Free-Range

The digital age has brought in free-range history.
--Jim Dwyer

Crime

Wherever the law is, crime can be found.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Unthethered

Over time, the American dream has become increasingly untethered from American reality.
--James Surowiecki

Liberty

In evaluating an asserted right to be free from particular gun-control regulations, liberty is on both sides of the equation. Guns may be useful for self-defense, as well as for hunting and sport, but they also have a unique potential to facilitate death and destruction and thereby to destabilize ordered liberty. Your interest in keeping and bearing a certain firearm may diminish my interest in being and feeling safe from armed violence.
--Justice John Paul Stevens

Death & Life

No matter how much you love something, it is impossible to hold it so tightly that death cannot slip it from your grasp. But you can hold on so tightly that life cannot get through.
--Suzanne Clothier

Culture

Culture, they say, is a two-way street.
--Langston Hughes