"The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us"

-- Howard Zinn

#Giving Quotes #Rewards Quotes #Establishment Quotes

“The most fundamental constraint is limited time”
“I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.”
“I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.”
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
“People are usually too busy counting the things they don't have. They notice how much more money their neighbor has, how much further ahead in spiritual unfoldment someone else is, and so on. But if we stop to count our blessings, to realize how much we do have and be grateful for it, then the heart is kept open to love and all the gifts that love brings, including the possibility of healing.”
“I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato”
“This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.”
“Anything we were studying in school, like math, or understanding somebody's behavior outside of school, kind of worked its way into something I could understand by way of a musical experience I'd had or something I'd heard.”

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