"Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes"

-- Thomas Sowell

#Compassion Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Use Quotes

“The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.”

Source : Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books
“The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.”
“He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”
“A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.”

Source : Attributed
“Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended to move the softer passions, the notes imperceptibly melt into one another.”
“When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the US economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.”

Source : "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.
“Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.”

Source : "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.
“Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.”

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