Today

“May you get all your wishes but one,

so that you always have something to strive for!”

- Old Irish Toast

"In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”

- Czeslaw Milosz

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”

- Mark Twain, What is Man?

“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”

- Frida Kahlo

I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff

Everybody said they’d stand behind me when the game got rough

But the joke was on me, there was nobody even there to call my bluff

I’m going back to New York City

I do believe I’ve had enough

- Bob Dylan

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

- Frederick Douglass

“What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”

- Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”

- Paul Farmer

"We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

- N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms