#cs

Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get out of paying child support. Get the fuck out of our decisions and give us back our voice. Women deserve better; women deserve choice. ↗

— Sonya Renee Taylor

#feminism #men #politics #pro-choice #republican

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#politics #men

It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be. But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in. Carrot could have jollied up a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#song-lyrics #stereotypes #men

Ascend, may you find so resistance Just know that you made such a difference All you leave behind will live to the end The cycle of suffering goes on But memories of you stay strong Some day I too will fly and find you again ↗

— Alter Bridge

#song #song-lyrics #inspirational

If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#politics #stupidity #humor

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. ↗

— Morgan Llywelyn

#men #politics #power #war #men

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. ↗

— George Lakoff

#george-lakeoff #humor-inspirational #political-humor #political-science #politics

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics. ↗

— Brian Cox

#inspirational #physics #science #inspirational