#sm

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#all-around #dissent #duty #matter #often

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #either #large #matters #ones

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#disease #infantile #mankind #measles #nationalism

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #jerry-falwell #jesse-jackson #pluralism #religion

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#minds #number #people #see #small

I love mysticism - it's such fun. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#i #i love #love #mysticism #such

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #art #conducive #corners #edges