25-05-2022, 03:30 PM
“Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.”
“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous.”
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”
“We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
“Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.”
“Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous.”
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”
“We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
“Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.”
“Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)