#sm

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. ↗

— Bob Marley

#fall #herb #more #more people #people

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#exemplified #patriotism #through

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#either #plagiarism #revolution

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#comes #first #hate #love #nationalism

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#death #emerge #greater #heroism #humanity

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#statesman #take #true #who #willing

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#effectively #great #his #how #idiosyncrasies

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#clear #entrepreneurs #great #leaders #moral

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social