"The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment."

-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes #Class Quotes

“Reagan 's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.”
“Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.”
“Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.”
“The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.”
“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
“God does not demand that I be succesful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.”
“You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.”

Source : "Mean Streets". www.imdb.com. 1973.
“Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.”

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