#lis

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#country #determination #else #idealism #more

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#america #europe #get #i #i do

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #community #encouragement #example #giving

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#anarchism #capitalism #freedom #freedom

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#call #country #establishment #guess #i

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#english #every #every day #go #had

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length. ↗

— Craig Charles

#been #journalists #keep #length #once

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#established #preserve #republic #will

We have to draw the line somewhere. I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists. ↗

— Jack T. Chick

#hit #i #line #lists #many