"We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children."

-- David R. Brower

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.61, Macmillan
“Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.”
“Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.”
“I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.”
“I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.”
“Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?”
“If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.”
“Daniel Lowe. My savior. My perfect guy. The boy who would never love me the way that I loved him.”

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