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America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.
— Barack Obama
Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.
— Christina Ricci
Gujarat is a pro-business state, where civil society organisations are comfortable with working to make sure that business does not suffer. Large parts of the rest of India, for better or worse, are very different.
— Abhijit Banerjee
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
— Eugene Peterson
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
— Herbert Hoover
What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
— Neill Blomkamp
Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.
— Shane Claiborne
On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, "We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.
— Shane Claiborne
It was a shame Christians had become so normal.
— Shane Claiborne
Christians are meant to be God's holy counterculture, showing the world what a society of love can look like. It is about political imagination and what it means to be the peculiar people of God. As
— Shane Claiborne
People are poor not just because of their sins; they are poor because of our sins (and people are rich because of our sins). On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, "We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.
— Shane Claiborne
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
— Shane Claiborne