"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."

“Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...”

“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”

Source : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

“And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?”

“I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.”

“Love always has its price, come whence it may.”

“Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.”

“As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could each see the world as others see it and learn to respect one another's views more readily. But I learned from the Pirahas, our expectations, our culture, and our experiences can render even perceptions of the environment nearly incommensurable cross-culturally.”

Source : Daniel Everett (2010). “Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle”, p.17, Profile Books

“Nobody has a franchise on what is good.”

Source : "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.