Excuse

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Clouds

Carbon dioxide clouds the mind: it directly degrades our ability to think clearly, and we are walling it into our places of education and pumping it into the atmosphere. The crisis of global warming is a crisis of the mind, a crisis of thought, a crisis in our ability to think another way to be. Soon, we shall not be able to think at all.
--James Bridle

Jews

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
--Theodor Adorno

Just Connect

It's not merely that libraries connect us to books. It's that they connect us to one another.
--Chris Bohjalian

Carbon Footprint

The Internet, the primary vector of information about climate change, is increasingly a vector of the problem itself. The world's data centers already have roughly the same carbon footprint as the global aviation industry, even as people continue to speak of "the cloud" as though it were a barely corporeal entity.
--Mark O'Connell

Understand

To understand fascism, you need to understand patriarchy.
--Jason Stanley

Invented

It has been the scheme of the Christian church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights.
--Thomas Paine

Enemy

I would suggest that we analyze and copy the strategy of the enemy; theirs has worked and ours has not.
--Senator Barry Goldwater (1962)

Without

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
--John Adams

Meditation

Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
--Kurt Vonnegut

Gives

Sometimes life gives by taking away.
--Carrie Fisher

Always

Race is like weather--we only talk about it when it's extreme but it's always there.
--Touré

Fixed Star

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
--Justice Robert Jackson (West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943)

Science

The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
--William Hazlitt (1829)

Worst

The worse thing to happen to God was religion, and the worse thing to happen to religion was man.
--Morgan James Talley

Wisdom

Today's conventional wisdom on conventional wisdom is that conventional wisdom can no longer be trusted.
--Ben Terris

Shortcut

Gratitude is a shortcut to happiness.
--Roko Belic

Paradox

Each of us must learn to live with paradox, or we cannot live peacefully or happily even a single day of our lives. In fact, we must even learn to love paradox, or we will never be wise, forgiving, or possess the patience of good relationships.
--Richard Rohr

Empathy

Hey, trolls that keep asking me why I don't care about legal citizens as much as I do "illegals"--fuck off. My caring knows no bounds. You are literally talking about obligatory lines in the sand that separate us. We are all humans. Stop trying to gerrymander my empathy.
--Alyssa Milano

Attention

Lying is not hard. All it requires is the nerve to say things that aren't true, while remembering that even the people who know us best are rarely paying attention.
--Sarah Miller