#ran

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. After Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--tall, short, fat, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care about what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory[....] Even if I couldn't be your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you feel depends on how you look! ↗

— Anne Bishop

#love #waiting #beauty

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#classify #give #ignorance #knowledge #name

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#between #line #songwriting #thin

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bomb #bombers #combatants #enemy #enemy combatants

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#amount #bombarded #considering #information #song

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#fell #first #i #i remember #once

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots