"If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you."

-- Cory Doctorow

#Long Quotes #Cynical Quotes #Negative Quotes

“Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly onâ€”and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you donâ€™t love.”

Source : Ramit Sethi (2009). “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”, p.97, Workman Publishing
“God's solution for "I can't live that way anymore" is basically, "Good! Don't live that way anymore. Set firm limits against evil behavior that are designed to promote change and redemption. Get the love and support you need from other places to take the kind of stance that I do to help redeem relationship. Suffer long, but suffer in the right way." And when done God's way, chances are much better for redemption.”
“Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.”

Source : "The homeless billionaire: The super-rich businessman who carries his meagre possessions in a paper bag" by Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. April 7, 2012.
“As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.”
“You know at this point you have everything you need. It's available to you from the inside and you see you are supported in many ways. You realize that there is more to this dimension, to this reality, than you have seen before. You see you are being taken care of, you are being loved, you are being looked after. All that's needed is to go inside, become still and listen.”
“Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.”

Source : Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”
“The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.”
“We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be 'outside' the system. ONE IS ALWAYS IN THE SYSTEM. The only question is whether one is part of the system in a way which challenges or strengthens the status quo. Privilege is not something I take and which I therefore have the option of not taking. It is something that society gives me and unless I change the institutions which give it to me, they will continue to give it, and I will continue to have it, however noble and egalitarian my intentions.”

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