"The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues."

--

Robert M. Hutchins

#Issues Quotes #World Quotes #Moral Quotes

“The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.”
“Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.”
“Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.”
“But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.”
“I led the league in go get 'em next time.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press....”
“We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government”
“Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.”

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