Brett > Brett's Quotes

“Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all.

- The Internationale”
― Billy Bragg, A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics

“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
― William James

“The holder of a
monopoly is a sinner and offender”
― Muhammad

“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
― William James

“Education and democracy have the same goal: The fullest possible development of human capabilities”
― Paul Wellstone

“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.”
― William James

“Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“…since its founding fathers, the United States has always been torn between two traditions, the activist policies of Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) and Thomas Jefferson’s (1743–1826) maxim that ‘the government that governs least, governs best’. With time and usual American pragmatism, this rivalry has been resolved by putting the Jeffersonians in charge of the rhetoric and the Hamiltonians in charge of policy. Erik Reinert (2007, 23)”
― Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

“When your leader still wears the beret from his days in the rebel army, you should be afraid.”
― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down