#sifi

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#because #classified #feels #how #i

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#intensified #nuclear #nuclear weapons #our #simply

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. ↗

— James Wolcott

#conservative #era #impetuous #intensified #only

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#been #diversification #energy #energy security #point

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#burned #campus #canada #cards #centre

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#believe #classified #embarrassed #humanitarian #i

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#higher #quicker #report #secrecy #will