"The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress. It's coexistence or no existence."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Two Quotes #Justice Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.”
“Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.”
“A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is less formidable when questions which divide the entire nation are involved, for then it must take on organized labor and other large organized groups. The business community in the aggregate is for this reason not uniquely effective as a pressure group.”

Source : Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.147, Harvard University Press
“I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.”

Source : "Rick Ross & Andy Samberg: Riding The Wavy Train". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 23, 2011.
“The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories â€” or you can use it to paint dreams.”
“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.”

Source : "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 137), February 1975.
“We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.

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