"And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well."

-- Simon Mainwaring

#Running Quotes #Reality Quotes #People Quotes

“I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.127, Chelsea Green Publishing
“Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.”
“Gesture is not always action.”
“Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1968). “Lucky Jim's politics”
“I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.”
“The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.”
“I like Spider-Man because he's become the most famous. He's the one who's most like me - nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he's got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that.”
“My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.”

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