#sm

What if we opened ourselves to the gift? ↗

— Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin

#anarchism

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#advocacy #protest #help

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#home #hometown #new-york-city #new-yorker #optimism

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#sarcasm #change

Sometimes, a war saves people. ↗

— José Ramos-Horta

#humanitarianism #pacifism #war #iraq

Okay?” Even if she deserved to be punished, he always let her know he cared about her. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#domestic-discipline #erotic-romance #romance #spanking #bdsm

I have to be accurate; I don't have to be impartial ↗

— John Burns

#balkans #current-events #iraq #journalism #iraq

If we ask, we should also be prepared to give. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. ↗

— George Orwell

#change

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ethics