"The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure."

-- Walter Lippmann

#Loss Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Class Quotes

“I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!”

Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30
“Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.”
“I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.”
“Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.”
“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.”
“So I think, as much as possible, I try to be open myself. I think that's probably something that falls with young people. It's not because I think young people are smarter, because I don't think they are. I think young people are quite actually stupid.”
“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.615, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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