#ty

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#done #government #had #i #much

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past. ↗

— Bela Kun

#contamination #correct #i #in the past #just

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. ↗

— Hans Kung

#change #church #community #division #few

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#liberty #permits #right

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality. ↗

— Mario Monti

#government #help #hope #i #i hope that

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#basic #basic elements #creed #dignity #elements

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#been #benefits #captured #counterparts #disparity

Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#back up #building #creating #hit #identity