Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ~Groucho Marx

“Every revolution evaporates and leaves only the slime of a new bureaucracy“ ~Franz Kafka

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

 When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self.  I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.” ~Brad Pitt

Women who have abortions do so because they value life and because they take very seriously the myriad of responsibilities that come not just with birth, but with nurturing a human being. ~ Charlotte Taft, a veteran feminist who has waged numerous wars with anti-abortion zealots.

Who says that fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians don’t have anything in common?  This could have come from an evangelical baptist preacher from the south… “The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you. We call you to be a people of manners, [...]

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. ~Nelson Mandela

“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and [...]

“We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” ~Ancient Indian Proverb

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. [...]