#fare

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#children #man #welfare #women #young

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#am #asian #away #consider #depressing

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#farmer #platforms #republican #says #vital

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ↗

— Ed Asner

#joy #kids #part #raising #warfare

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #vegan #vegetarian #cruelty

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#politics #strategy #warfare #science

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #goodbye #leaving #sorrow #evil

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#separation #separation

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#jesus #need #politics #welfare #theology

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated. ↗

— John Howard Yoder

#politics #theology #warfare #theology