"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."

-- Adam Schiff

#America Quotes #Community Quotes #Golden Quotes

“The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.”
“I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.”
“Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.”
“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”
“Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.”
“I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully human. They seem a little rigid and narrow at times, wanting to be holy, but not human. They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without realizing or enjoying the beauty of earth. They keep the ten commandments, but their observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small and the air in that world is stale.”
“Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”
“the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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