#han

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. ↗

— David Morse

#anybody #behind #coaster #feel #flying

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#being #better #chance #creature #exertions

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#justified #mankind #minus #more #opinion

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it. ↗

— Esai Morales

#hand #i #just #me #say

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. ↗

— Evo Morales

#change things #encountering #i #i see #impossible

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy. ↗

— Evo Morales

#allows #before #bolivia #changing #country

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#beings #far #human #human beings #important

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#budget #change #congress #country #every