Capricious Quote by Karen Russell

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem…

— John Steinbeck

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and…

— Anonymous

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which…

— James A. Baldwin

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature,…

— Ayn Rand

“The misery is what should concern us: the death, rage and distress of others always comes back to haunt us. Especially when the tragedies…

— Marc Vachon

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry…

— Douglas MacArthur

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant…

— Cyril Connolly

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being…

— Terry Pratchett

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid.…

— Bella Pollen

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

— Samantha Power

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

— Monica Crowley