#arc

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

#before #century #imposed #natural #other

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#cannot #directed #done #employing #forced

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. ↗

— Halle Berry

#become #faces #i #i think #mutilate

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#been #coming #congress #department #energy

Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father. ↗

— Holly Hood

#family #funny #life #sarcasm #family

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #call #exercise #fact #farce

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education #life #mr-darcy #people #society

Daydreaming subverts the world. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#situationist-international #life

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). ↗

— Alain de Botton

#buildings #museums #architecture

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #society #freedom