Keeping Them With Us

I subscribe to the old theory that people we love remain with us as long they are fondly remembered, and that keeping them with us this way is a way of expressing our gratitude to them and keeping their spirit alive in the world.
--A. Stanton

Dissent

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
--Justice Robert H. Jackson (West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943)

Belongs

Everything that is important and valuable and good belongs with the little piece of us which is not mechanical.
--Iris Murdoch

If

If we could have spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, our airports and all of the other problems we have, we would have been a lot better off.
--Donald Trump (December 2015)

History

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
--Aldous Huxley

Status Quo

The status quo stays the status quo through fear-mongering and assurances that change happens slowly.
--Josh Salaam

Reason

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
--Thomas Paine

Notice

What you notice is who you are, maybe.
--Dana Spiotta

Real Love

Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
--Henry Miller

Certain

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
--Eric Hoffer

Not Very

Sometimes the law is not very compassionate--you know that.
--Judge Harry Pregerson (U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals)

Virtue

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
--Oscar Wilde

The Past

In talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.
--William Maxwell

We Wake

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
--John Updike

Complicated

Life is difficult and fucked up and complicated.
--Mike Nichols

Genius

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift

Costumes

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
--Ram Dass

Daredevils

Loving is for the daredevils. It holds so many risks--we lose those we love, and we are forced to feel so deeply.
--Sherman Yellen

Pride

Pride leads to every other vice; it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
--C.S. Lewis

Qualified

Hillary Clinton is clearly the most qualified candidate to become President of the political system we currently have. Bernie Sanders is clearly the most qualified candidate to create the political system we should have.
--Robert Reich