#cs

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#change #critical #democratic #electoral #good

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#critics #even #friends #going #i

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. ↗

— Bil Keane

#entertainment #family #frontier #good #humor

Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally, in one way or another, succumb to, and then there is the domain of the dead that, like an imaginary friend (or foe) or a secret concubine, constantly beckons, reminding us of our loss. What is memory but a ghost that lurks at the corners of the mind, interrupting our normal course of life, disrupting our sleep in order to remind us of some acute pain or pleasure, something silenced or ignored? We miss not only their presence, or how they felt about us, but ultimately how they allowed us to feel about ourselves or them. (prologue) ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#father-daughter-relationship #iran #iranian-revolution #memoir #mother-daughter-relationship

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. ↗

— Dario Fo

#artistic #artistic expression #either #every #expression

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#basically #comes #does #his #i

I brought you some coffee.” he held out the cup but she waved it away. “I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet.” At that he smiled. “How would you know what feet taste like?” “I just know.” -Luke and Clary, pg.209- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#coffee #food-critics #funny #luke #food

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#active #always #how #i #nervous

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#asked #forever #going #into #me