#aw

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself. ↗

— Black Elk

#dead #except #happy #i #like

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #fact #hold #human #human beings

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #fact #hold #human #human beings

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#away #best #chance #doing #far

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#best #better #condition #difficult #easy

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#civilized #distinction #drawn #office #people

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#demanded #favor #law #obedience

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#getting #laws #live #management #paralysis

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#away #basically #bit #chew #engaged