While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. - Jules Verne
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! - Jules Verne
Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities... - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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