#cia

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#social-justice #society #justice

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#social-justice #justice

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning #specialization #knowledge

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. ↗

— David Mitchell

#wit #women #appreciation

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. ↗

— Richard Weikart

#darwinism #ethnic-cleansing #eugenics #evolution #genocide

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#appreciation

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ↗

— Voltaire

#appreciation

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#appreciation

Percy," Grover said, "the gods really don't appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don't appreciate it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #poseidon #appreciation

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#wisdom #wonder #appreciation