Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
The future is in the hands of those who explore. . . and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.
I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.