#ran

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. ↗

— Janis Ian

#backward #feel #ignorant #just #need

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#be grateful #grateful #let us #mirror #only

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#cop #draw #grandfather #heard #him

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#age #arms #best #bravest #came

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#america #debt #deployments #gratitude #immense

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. ↗

— David Byrne

#card #election #eligible #federal #green

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#power #reform #revolution #transfer

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands