#nets

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#found #idea #revolution #which

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#citizens #created #cutting #elderly #fortunate

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. ↗

— Christopher Wren

#earth #eyes #like #men #our

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#allow #created #governed #insect #laws

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #exist #human #human life #i

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#believe #ethical #greater #harm #humility

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#believe #brutalized #capitalism #capitalist #deal

Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day’s work, it takes, therefore, half a million able bodied persons --- mostly women --- to do the dish-washing of the country. And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work: that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper: of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children --- for all of which things the community has naturally to pay. The Jungle ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#family

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. ↗

— Amy Lee

#hilarious #i #i love #know #love

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

#am #anybody #billions #common #common sense