#wit

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#book #cracks #end #go #grove

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#color #distinction #emancipation #every #go

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#being #government #land #laws #namely

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#believe #bottom #enough #fairies #garden

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ↗

— Aristotle

#able #accepting #educated #entertain #mark

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education #expense #further #girl #give

All serious daring starts from within. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#serious #starts #within

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#lame #religion #science #without