#mini

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#force #his #moral #objective #poet

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#being #control #diminish #dream #european

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#forces #necessary #peace #terrorism #undermining

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #american politics #condition #country #failed

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allowed #been #legislate #notice #obama

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#feminism #women #free

Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning. ↗

— Richard A. Young

#christianity #creation #dominion #life #vegetarianism

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. ↗

— Bjork

#feminist #i #maybe #old #old age