#pit

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#democracy #elections #government #greed #wall-street

Mousedung! ↗

— Erin Hunter

#insults #put-downs #insult

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#coffee

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#self-pity #dead

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#conscience #guilt #stefan-zweig #conscience

Lucifer's bouncing balls, Kitten, not again! ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#expletives #night

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave. ↗

— Gerard Way

#mcr #winning

كل المستشفيات كئيبة, و إن حسنت خدمتها و غليت أسعارها و نضفت أروقتها. لكن مستشفيات الففراء في بلادنا ليست كئيبة, بل حقيرة. و الكآبة يمكن احتمالها, أما الحقارة فلا يجوز احتمالها. ↗

— بلال فضل

#medicine #medicine

Live your epitaph ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #epitaph #humane #introspective #live

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no. ↗

— Dambisa Moyo

#africa