#zed

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. ↗

— Luke Ford

#allowed #any #attractive #because #decided

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#highly #life #lower #morality #more

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#college #college education #discouraged #education #field

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#benefit #congress #day #desire #first

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#amazed #beginning #bland #days #everything

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. ↗

— Robert Trout

#basic #characterized #discoveries #factories #generating

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors. ↗

— John Turturro

#corners #crazed #directors #exposed #film

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#caused #change #god #his #institutions