Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

John Green

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

John Osborne

We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy.

Bell Hooks

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

John Donne

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.

J. Paul Getty

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

Andrew Jackson

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

F. L. Lucan

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the new States of the Union. Well, Sir, suppose it is. We all know that it has more than three times as many mountains, inaccessible and rocky hills, and sandy wastes, as are possessed by any State of the Union. But how much is there of useful land? how much that may be made to contribute to the support of man and of society? These ought to be the questions. Well, with respect to that, I am sure that everybody has become satisfied that, although California may have a very great sea-board, and a large city or two, yet that the agricultural products of the whole surface now are not, and never will be, equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part.

Daniel Webster

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Sarah Dessen

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

John Keats