"This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now:... there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know...," and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway."
David Foster Wallace
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Rebecca West
"You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify des visions and to consume."
Noam Chomsky
"Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart."
Shahla Khan
"Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts.... To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that."
Albert Schweitzer
"If we should be so lucky as to touch the lives of many, so be it. But if our lot is no more than the setting of a table, or the tending of a garden, or showing a child a path in a wood, out lives are no less worthy."
Kent Nerburn
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