William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.
No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry. . . If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.
We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?