Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week.
-Thomas Michael Disch, science fiction author and poet (2 Feb 1940-2008)
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
-Norman Mailer, author (31 Jan 1923-2007)
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30 Jan 1882-1945)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989)
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (22 Jan 1561-1626)
