#today

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#brought #cases #corruption #covered #establishment

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

#fathers #live #lives #mothers #our

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#anymore #because #believe #good #goodness

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation. ↗

— Janez Drnovsek

#fundamental #fundamental questions #globalisation #question #questions

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#adequate #civilization #could #evolved #food supply

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#book #choice #country #find #fly

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#into #most #most powerful #powerful #powerful way

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#bad #civil #civil war #compared #country