#vol

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#connection #conscription #dates #except #existence

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement. ↗

— Arthur Hiller

#gotten #had #her #howard #involvement

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

#different #discovered #duty #eagerness #evolutions

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#civil war #did #duty #failure #horrors

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#empowerment #ending #get #i #involved

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. ↗

— David Ives

#always #any #because #bunch #casting

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#analytical #cultural #curriculum #did #heritage

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#conformity #dead #demoralize #hope #i

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. ↗

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

#marxism #rape #resistance #revolution #trauma