#ra

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#conviction #democracy #extraordinary #ordinary #ordinary people

We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future. ↗

— Ron Kind

#chance #following #future #give #iraqi

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#contribute #immeasurably #picture #success #vividly

All of his saves have come in relief appearances. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#come #his #relief #saves

Prince Nicochinski, if we eat a delicious food, our heart will be warm and can make us smile.. ↗

— Ono Eriko

#food

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#inspirational #food

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#casey #grave #his #spinning #today

Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries. ↗

— AainaA-Ridtz

#humanity #inspiration #life #love #food

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. ↗

— Alveda King

#both #error #fundamental #getting #human