#try

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#civil #contention #country #form #latest

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ↗

— Aristotle

#form #inequality #make #things #try

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#about #benefits #best #bring #chance

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#black #country #future #great #great men

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#citizen #coming #country #experience #happened

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#any #country #go #i #i am

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. ↗

— Julian Assange

#industry #large #leaks #more #more people

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#decided #eight #fun #having #how

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. ↗

— John Avlon

#always #conspiracy #divide #far-left #left wing