Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

When you stop being shocked, you start being radicalized.

Like tobacco companies before them, Big Tech companies know that a more addictive product is a more profitable product.

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

There are also still misguided “realists” who oppose arming brave Ukrainians because they fear they can’t win, or they don’t want to further antagonize Putin, or they still believe the “delusion” that America can be an island with no care about what happens to the rest of the world.

“If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language of silence.

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

One of my favorite proverbs is from the Greeks: “A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.”