#sm

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#am #any #attacked #based #believe

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw. ↗

— Joey Comeau

#perspective #pessimism #beauty

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#expenses #great #leak #little #ship

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#move #only #ourselves #peace #planting

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#any #anything #because #haven #i

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. ↗

— David Duke

#cultures #destroy #israel #jews #mechanism

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dystopia #prophesy #science-fiction #beauty

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks. ↗

— Patty Duke

#childhood #district #fantasy #historic #house

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#atheism #collection #doubt #express #few