#cs

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#biggest #comics #dennis #influences #menace

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#lot #people #politics #quite #really

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#comics #down #i #lot #other

Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so that most people see it as just one more diversion, a sport, with politicians our paunch-bellied gladiators and those who bother to pay attention just fans on the sidelines: We paint our faces red or blue and cheer our side and boo their side, and if it takes a late hit or cheap shot to beat the other team, so be it, for winning is all that matters. But I don't think so. They are out there, I think to myself, those ordinary citizens who have grown up in the midst of all the political and cultural battles, but who have found a way-in their own lives, at least- to make peace with their neighbors, and themselves. ...I imagine they are waiting for a politics with the maturity to balance idealism and realism, to distinguish between what can and cannot be compromised, to admit the possibility that the other side might sometimes have a point. They don't always understand the arguments between right and left, conservative and liberal, but they recognize the difference between dogma and common sense, responsibility and irresponsibility, between those things that last and those that are fleeting. They are out there, waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dreams

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits, ↗

— Michael Phelps

#confidence #inspirational #olympics #phelps #swimming

In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#dreams

Faith reminds us that change is always possible. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#christian-living #christianity #faith #politics #social-change

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#choices #comfortable #confidence #critics #easier

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#china #develop #francs #group #many

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#american people #been #elections #enthusiasm #i