“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.” WellsSeemsSeaMissingDangerExampleMinesOilAgencyCoalTradingStrengtheningDerivativesDeep Sea Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler
“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.” MayHas BeensLightFallFailingMissingDangerNeededHighestWake UpBusyPerceiveUnconsciousAbidingPresence Of God Author:Phillips Brooks
“I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.” PeopleGovernmentHappensSeeingMissingDangerDirectConstantExcitementIntimateClashDisplacement Author:Deborah Copaken
“We, the people, gave the marching orders to our democratically-elected officials and instructed them. We wanted out of Vietnam and we got out of Vietnam. We wanted women's right to choose and we got women's right to choose. We got the EPA, we got the Clean Air Act, Water Act, we got rights for workers in the workplace to be protected from dangers. We accomplished pretty much all of what we wanted when we had the courage of our convictions. That is the missing ingredient.” PeopleWantedOrderWaterRightsAirMissingDangerCleanWorkersConvictionOfficialsAccomplishedIngredientsVietnamProtectedWorkplaceElected OfficialsClean AirEpa Author:Jill Stein