Patrick

“In the Trump years, Republicans have sent a message that lying is useful and productive, racism is acceptable, the press is the enemy, and a strong-man authoritarian head of government is the ideal.”
― Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

“The mutability of bacteria, coupled with their ability to pass around and share genetic trumps in a microscopic game of cards, seemed to increasingly leave Homo sapiens holding losing hands.”
― Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

“A true patriot salutes the flag but always makes sure it’s flying over a nation that’s not only free but fair, not only strong but just.”
― Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

“Caring deeply comes at a cost. The word compassion contains within itself its emotional price. The prefix com means “with”; the Latin root pati (from which we get the word passion as in the Passion of Christ) means “suffering.” To feel compassion, then, is to enter into another’s suffering, to suffer along with them. Carl Frederick Buechner, theologian and author, defines compassion as “the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside someone else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never be any peace and joy for me until there is finally peace and joy for you.”
― Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell