"Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit."

-- Emma Goldman

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!”
“Cause whatever you love could be taken away, So live like it's your dying day.”

Source : Song: End of the Road, Album: Lace Up, 2012
“The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.”
“I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”
“Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."”
“America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.”
“As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.”
“The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities.”

Source : Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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