"Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly."

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Source : Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press

Joanna Russ

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Acting Quotes

“When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.85, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“You can't heal what you can't feel.”
“The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there.”
“What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.”
“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.”
“If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.”
“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
“Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.”

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