#rage

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

#poor #poverty #real #their #tragedy

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #comedy #commandments #extent #hilarious

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#bush #corporations #debt #destruction #george

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians. ↗

— Chad Smith

#as far as #creative #far #feel #flea

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#army #courage #more #retreat #soviet

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#man #millions #statistic #tragedy

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#admirable #amazing #childbirth #conquest #courageous