"...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving."

-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#Sex Quotes #Moving Quotes #Government Quotes

“In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.”

Source : "The Classic With a Twist", www.esquire.com. February 22, 2017.
“I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.”
“Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.”
“It hurts to much to be close to you, but continually pushed away.”
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge
“I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.”
“When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.”
“You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.”

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