“I'm an optimist except when it comes to love, politics, government, relationships, environment and the future.”— Josh Peck, twitter.com
“Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and t…”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“In general: why has the movement for social justice unfolded in such a way that its most passionate members have forbidden complexity, nuance, internal criticism, and conditional support? [...] Why do people insist we all be loyal soldiers at precisely the time we need robust internal debate the mos…”— Freddie DeBoer, medium.com
“I think the reality is you can see that countries in the world that isolate themselves, it’s not good for their people.”— Tim Cook, wsj.com
“‘We gotta move to the center,’ ‘We gotta move to those white guys,’ ‘We gotta move to those working-class people’ or ‘We gotta double down on the social agenda.’ It’s a false choice. They are totally compatible. I have never said anything to the A.C.L.U. that I wouldn’t say to the Chamber of Commerc…”— Joe Biden, mobile.nytimes.com
“And though you voted for that awful man, I would never refuse your hand.”— Elvis Perkins In Dearland, open.spotify.com
“One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“It is no surprise to me that online debate has become the international sport of cis white men.”— Ijeoma Oluo, theestablishment.co
“Our United States of America Has quickly become a global empire Come on, see it now for what it really is Power hungry, nothing much to give Violent, all in the name of freedom”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“Someone else planted a bomb in her car but it went off too early. Though some people said she'd put the bomb in her own car for sympathy. That's how hot things were getting.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”— Mitch McConnell, theslot.jezebel.com
“There is no money. Companies are struggling and firing left and right. The companies that are doing well learned that hyperpartisan content shares better than real news.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com
“Although women as a group have made substantial gains in wages, educational attainment, and prestige over the past three decades, the economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson have shown that women are less happy today than their predecessors were in 1972, both in absolute terms and relative to…”— Anne-Marie Slaughter, theatlantic.com
“For speaking at the Republican convention, I got attacked way more by liberal gay people than by conservative Christian people.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were ten, twenty, thirty years ago — no matter what some will say [...] but we are still not where we need to be.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com