I wish economic austerity wasn't only for average people. That way this would hurt less. We're all drowning, it's only a matter of time.—Iranian Journalist

“Free, free Iraq,” they shout, “Iran get out, get out.”—Iraqis marching in Baghdad

Cities across the globe, including London, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Lagos, Copenhagen, Vancouver, New Orleans, Miami, San Francisco, Savannah, and New York, will become modern-day versions of Atlantis, along with countries such as Bangladesh, the Marshall Islands, and large parts of New Zealand and Australia. There are ninety coastal cities in the U.S. that endure chronic flooding, a number that is expected to double in the next two decades.—Chris Hedges

The root of suffering is attachment.—Buddha

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

How should we like it were stars to burn ... With a passion for us we could not return?... If equal affection cannot be, ... Let the more loving one be me.—W. H. Auden

Resignation is a fruit that ripens at the gates of heaven. How powerful, how glorious the calm smile, the pure brow of the resigned human creature.—Balzac

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. —Walt Whitman

America’s mental illness is guns—The Philadelphia Inquirer

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. —Unknown