#ore

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #call #confusing #end #hinges

A forest bird never wants a cage. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#cage #forest #never #wants

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#do you know #know #less #more #neither

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family. ↗

— David Abram

#nature #trees #family

The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#give #liberty #more #will #you

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#commenced #dread #enthusiast #even #infinitely

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do. ↗

— Neil Innes

#going #had #ignore #just #kind

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#expensive #less #make #more #should