The time is flying and we’ve already got round to this month’s collection of newly encountered quotes.
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.
[Turkish Proverb]
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
[Hubert H Humphrey]
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
[Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist]
The single biggest thing l learned was from an indigenous elder of Cherokee descent … who reminded me of the difference between a Western settler mindset of “I have rights” and an indigenous mindset of “I have obligations”. Instead of thinking that I am born with rights, I choose to think that I am born with obligations to serve past, present, and future generations, and the planet herself.
[unknown]
Maybe there is nothing wrong with you – maybe it is just really difficult to exist within a system that was not designed to support a spirit like yours.
[unknown]
Leaving capitalist consumerism and market economics as the dominant stewards of the only known civilization in the universe will most likely seem, in retrospect, to have been a terrible idea.
[Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book]
You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.
[Friedrich Nietzsche]
How sad it must be – believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
[unknown]
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
[Franklin D Roosevelt]