Chance Quote by Thomas Pynchon

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who…

— Alan Keyes

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who…

— Anonymous

I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance,…

— Jimmy Carter

I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous…

— Murray Bookchin

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more…

— Ronald Reagan

If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have…

— Jim Woodring

“How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the family and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to…

— Chris Pine

When I hear the word 'disruption,' in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a living. We…

— Ellen Ullman

I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped…

— George Saunders