"People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever."

-- Matt de la Pena

#Baby Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feet Quotes

“No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.”
“Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?”
“When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.”
“White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press
“It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'”
“Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?”
“If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.”

Source : Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.18, A&C Black
“Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.”

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