Quotes

Thomas Fuller photo
Jenny Han photo

“Immigrant parents don’t want their children to suffer or have to live harder than they did.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

As quoted in "Jenny Han Has Been Here All Along" in Elle (24 February 2020) https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a30913764/jenny-han-interview-to-all-the-boys-sequel/

David Cay Johnston photo

“Rather than building the economy for all of us, we are mining the bottom to benefit the top.”

David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author

David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (Jun 1, 2014)

Maximilien Robespierre photo

“Whoever tries to stop the saying of mass is a worse fanatic than the priest who says it.”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

Attacking the Dechristianization movement
Misc Quotes

Tenzin Gyatso photo
Gautama Buddha photo
Donald J. Trump photo

“Nobody has done more for Christianity or for evangelicals — or for religion itself — than I have.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Quoted in "Donald Trump Claims Nobody Has Done More 'for Religion Itself' Than Him" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-claims-nobody-has-done-more-religion-itself-him-1635036, Newsweek, 2 October 2021
2021, October 2021

“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”

Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)

Thomas Paine photo

“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

"Public Good" (December 1780) http://www.thomas-paine-friends.org/paine-thomas_public-good-1780.html.
1780s

Cassandra Clare photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Eric Hoffer photo
Amos Oz photo

“The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.”

Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual

"The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Jun 1999, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545kh

A.E. Housman photo
Thomas Hughes photo