#si

Yes We Can! ↗

— Barack Obama

#hope #positivity #action

Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall ↗

— Bathsheba Dailey

#encouragement #faith #hurt #love #faith

Compassion is the chief law of human existence. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#humanity #law

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#ask #bit #came #did #even

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#day #doing #had #i #i always

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

I don't perform. Seals perform. ↗

— Morrissey

#musicians #unusual #musician

Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong May all evil stumble as it flies in the world All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble We must brave this night and have faith in love ↗

— Janelle Monáe

#justice #love #music #faith

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. ↗

— Iain Banks

#determines #fascist #free-market #matter #out