#fr

McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge. But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#friendly-fire #insubordination #london #obama #pat-tillman

First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills — against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#equality

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#call #friends #matter #up #you

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friendship

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#friendship

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. ↗

— Yann Martel

#freedom

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#gratitude #loyalty #family

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#humanity #mistakes #freedom

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#freedom #oppression #freedom

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#women #writing #freedom