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“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.”

People Sometimes Difficult Struggle Conditions Broken Revolution Mass Direct Revolutionary Motive Joining Vogue Carried Away

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.”

Believe Broken Mass My Friends Wine Pot Rome Believe In Me Marvellous Castaway

Author:Arthur Hugh Clough

“They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.”

Light Wanted Black Steps Support Broken Mass Window Casts Glasses Patterns Heavy Strikes Shade Roof Moonlight Lanes Pillars Spooky Rugged Lanterns

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.”

Able Spiritual Humanity Asks Moral Broken Eating Mass Distance Cancer Consumption Bleeding Overconsumption

Author:Richard J. Foster

“The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.”

Children Body Spiritual Jesus Christ Hours Broken Mass Appearance Bread Abandoned Slums Spiritual Food

Book:My Life for the Poor

Source: My Life for the Poor

“For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated.”

Children Home Parent Levels Poverty Greater Broken Amount Mass Prison Separation Eras Loved Ones Hopelessness Cycling Incarceration Mass Incarceration Broken Homes

Author:Michelle Alexander

“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.”

Men Should Moving Born Broken Mass Rain Twenties Thirty Muscles Chests Agony Baptism Born Again Older Man

Author:Frank Miller

“How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.”

World Taken Mankind Broken Mass Possession Melancholy Proven Particles Unkind Disgusted Misanthropy

Book:Letters from Scandinavia

Source: Letters from Scandinavia

“Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.”

Feels Long Body Energy Sound Dark Space Gone Air Broken Mass Notes Guitar Wave Smell Noise Sweat Soar Fragments Heartbeat Liquid Space Between

Book:Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

Source: Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex