#ow

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. ↗

— Paul Auster

#scotland #equality

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#equality #gender #man #men-world #power

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bigotry #despotism #equality #hypocrisy #know-nothings

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#equality #females #girls #human-beings #women

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers. ↗

— John Green

#paper-towns #mystery

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.... ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mystery

What fire does not destroy, it hardens ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#spiritual-growth #inspirational

If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good. ↗

— Anne Hill

#power #spirituality #equality

It's not just about the money. It's about fairness, and equality, and how profoundly our political culture is infused with the imperatives to keep us divided on the most fundamental bases ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#freedom #inspirational #life #politics #power

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#equality #feminism #men #power #queen