#tru

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#anybody #anything #cut #forward #going

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. ↗

— David Axelrod

#arriving #ballots #being #counted #custody

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#i #ideas #ideology #say #straight

Pain beneath every breath is the only reason of someones lifelong success. ↗

— Vishal Bhojwani

#pain #result #truth #nature

If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall create a future that will inexorably proceed in confirming this view. Rescuers refused to see Jews as guilty or beyond hope and themselves as helpless, despite all the evidence that could be marshaled to the contrary. They made a choice that affirmed the value and meaningfulness of each life in the midst of a diabolical social order that repeatedly denied it. Can we do otherwise? ↗

— Samuel P. Oliner

#hope #nature

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#religion #truth #religion

Babarism is the natural state of mankid, civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And babarism must always ultimately triumph. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#nature

There is more truth about Human Nature in a good Sci-Fi or Epic Fantasy Novel than in any Non-Fiction. When you're speaking for real, you hide what you don't want others to see. When you're telling a story, you don't hold back. ↗

— I Curmudgeon Hugh

#truth #writing #nature

By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#nature #organic #source #struggle #suffering

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#distrust #towns #nature