Unless

I feel safe unless I start watching TV, after which, if I let my reptilian brain take over, I feel a bit panicked.
--Jack Shafer

The Hero

By overcoming the dark passions, the hero symbolizes our ability to control the irrational savage within us.
--Joseph Campbell

Odor

There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.
--Tennessee Williams

Reveal

Presidential campaigns are like MRIs for the soul. Whoever you are, the process will reveal you. And the deeper you go in the campaign, the more this is true.
--David Axelrod

Wicked

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
--Winston Churchill

Not Predictable

The unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have, though how and when we might win and how long it takes is not predictable.
--Rebecca Solnit

Less Free

We think we can make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free. When you make yourself less free, all that happens afterwards is that you are less free. You are not safer.
--Molly Ivins

Disguised

There's a lot of racism in this country disguised as patriotism.
--Colin Kaepernick

Abundance

As long as we believe in scarcity rather than in abundance, coupled with the belief that some people are more deserving than others, the human condition will only deteriorate.
--Christopher Ross

Virtue

Individual rich people can be virtuous. Rich communities never are.
--Alon Levy

Purpose

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
--Rebecca Solnit

Follow

It's always the same, isn't it? Follow the money. Who benefits? Cui bono.
--Joseph O'Shaughnessy

Not Good

It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS... bring it on, Donald. Keep going.
--Les Moonves

Infinite Scroll

And now, who can keep up? There is a melancholy to the infinite scroll.
--Alexis Madrigal

Exist

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
--Gabriel García Márquez

Help Somebody

Sometimes if I'm sad or scared it helps me to help somebody else feel better. I call it "selfish benevolence."
--Sara Benincasa

Crazy

The pure products of America go crazy.
--William Carlos Williams

Present

The concept of always being reachable makes us present nowhere.
--Peter Arvai

Most Americans

We all know that when a politician or a member of the media uses the phrase, "what most Americans think" it's code for, "I'm pulling this next part out of my ass here, folks. I haven't bothered to check, and I don't suppose you will, either."
--Peter Ramus

Refresh

Immigrants do not dilute "Americanism." In fact, and to the contrary, immigrants refresh and reinforce "Americanism" by being most conscious of why they are here, and their concrete knowledge of what it means not to be here.
--Robert Eller

Ideas

Repressing ideas spreads ideas.
--Neil Gaiman