“But standing back to back with Sunita, it was confirmed. He was taller. As a thief, Sunil Sharma has finally started to grow.”
Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“Over 40% of the global population does not have the luxury to worry about future problems because they are presently struggling to meet their basic everyday needs.”
Source: Critical Comparison of Low-Carbon Technologies: A practical guide to prioritizing energy technologies for climate change mitigation
“Nobody poor can possibly afford to live within the bounds of the law.”
Source: Molly House
“We have conquered or quelled many diseases that used to kill people in droves: smallpox, measles, polio and the plague. People are taller, and formerly life-threating conditions like appendicitis, dysentery, a broken leg or anemia are easily remedied. To be sure, there is still too much malnutrition and disease in some countries, but these evils are often the result of bad government and social inequality, not a lack of food or medical know how.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“I’d like to think if you can’t really afford to have one family, why be so horny as to have another?”
Source: The Loophole
“Economics professor Chris Doucouliagos from Deakin University reported in 2017 that poverty does not, in fact, encourage people to 'strive more' and compete for wealth. Rather, economic inequality impedes access to education and training. Poverty - or the threat of it - removes the material means required for people to experiment and innovate in jobs or with businesses, or discourages them from taking that kind of financial risk. Insecure work conditions exacerbate this effect, as workers fight changes - like automation, or climate transition mechanisms - they perceive as threatening their income stream.”
Source: On Fairness
“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976, the first boat carrying Vietnamese refugees arrived in Darwin. (Uc da Loi means Big Red Rat. The Vietnamese People named Australians as such because of the red kangaroo painted on the sides of Australian military vehicles. They did not know what a kangaroo was and so, they thought it was a rat. Hence the name of Uc da Loi.)”
Source: A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
“When you look at yourself, you catch a fleeting glimpse of a moment in eternity, as if peering into the infinite flow of time through the lens of your own existence.
But when you look within yourself, delving deep into the core of your being, you uncover the profound truth that eternity resides within each passing moment. In that single heartbeat of your life, you can find the vastness of the universe, where time dissolves and every experience, emotion, and thought connects you to the boundless essence of existence.”
“Self-appointed defenders of freedom seem to know nothing of the loss of liberty attendant upon seriously adverse economic conditions. No regimentation is more cruel than that of extreme poverty. The cramped and barren lives of millions of sharecroppers in the southern states, the deplorable conditions in some of the coal-mining areas, the slum districts in almost any large city, are a pitiful contradiction to our boasted 'inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Source: Letters from the Dust Bowl
“Soul worker: [...] To find peace: it meant she had to stop scorning the souls around her hooked on drugs, reproducing countless babies, living on welfare. Instead she had to minister to their souls, give them dignity by showing basic love and kindness. Her mission was not to save them, help them, change them - just simply to salute the good within them. That is the job of a soul worker. And when people do their job and fulfill their spiritual goals, they become peaceful and secure. Joy wells up from within.”
Source: The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul