Tiny

We're looking at reality as it really is, we're being brave enough and grown-up enough to know how tiny we truly are.
--Ann Druyan

Banking

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
--Henry Ford (notable anti-Semite)

Curiosity

It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress in science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature. To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and allow that we do not know. Nothing is certain or proved beyond all doubt. You investigate for curiosity, because it is unknown, not because you know the answer.
--Richard P. Feynman

Dinner

Earth is Forgiveness School. You might as well start at the dinner table. That way, you can do this work in comfortable pants.
--Anne Lamott

Matter

Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter.
--Matt Haig

Change

The concentration of wealth parallels the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: it is economic climate change with consequences equally as dire as global warming on all life forms.
--Yuri Asian

Fear

Adults keep saying: "We owe it to the young people to give them hope." But I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.
--Greta Thunberg (speech at Davos; January 2019)

Change

Anyone willing to change will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.
--Amos Oz

Masquerading

This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.
--Sarah Kendzior

Hypocrites

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others...when you pray, go into your room and close the door.
--Jesus Christ (Matthew 6)

Time

In you, my mind, I measure time.
--St. Augustine

Events

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

Charm

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
--Aldous Huxley

History

I have always believed the past contains the truth, that history explains.
--Jill Lepore

Cruel

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
--Renata Adler

Safe

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
--Adlai Stevenson

Culture

Culture is everything we don't have to do.
--Brian Eno

Belief

What is it the Testament teaches us?--to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
--Thomas Paine

Illicit

Since most people are sleeping when I'm awake--their circadian rhythms in happy synchrony with the diurnal clock--my insomnia is troubled by a sense of trespass, even contamination: the illicit importing of day into night.
--Marina Benjamin

Able

The more distracted we become, and the more emphasis we place on speed at the expense of depth, the less likely and able we are to care.
--Jonathan Safran Foer