“We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.”

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.

The marketplace is democratic.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.

He tried to pull me against him, and i bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. ‘did you just bite me?

Never bet against a cat.

I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.