"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction."

-- Howard Zinn

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Energy Quotes

“For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.”
“From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.”
“Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (2011). “Why Marx Was Right”, p.202, Yale University Press
“The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.”
“No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.”
“The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.”
“Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.”
“I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.”

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