#ch

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#gorbachev #mr #tear #wall

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil rights #civil rights movement #culture #graduate #graduate school

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#dune #herbert #paul #love

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#characterized #country #english #fifty #fraud

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power. ↗

— John Redwood

#came #labour #power #rich #rises

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

#grow #increasingly #live #old-fashioned #unpopular

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. ↗

— Donna Rice

#before #believed #between #boat #choice

As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs on my wrists and remembered the physical suffering and mental anguish I had endured while fighting with all the willpower and intellect God had given me for that rare and elusive thing in a Communist country called justice. Pg. 351 ↗

— Nien Cheng

#communism #mao #prison #death

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups, was melancholy. "I thought I'd be overjoyed, but really it's just … another one bites the dust …" This demonstrates, I suppose, that if you opposed Thatcher's ideas it was likely because of their lack of compassion, which is really just a word for love. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies. ↗

— Russell Brand

#death #ideology #love #thatcher #death

Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father; slippery people looked slippery; they really did. And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudiced and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right! ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#parents #love