Brian

“I am a man, and as foolish and weak as most men; if I have had an advantage over my fellows, it is that I have known this of myself, and have therefore known their weaknesses, and never presumed to find much more strength and wisdom in myself than I found in another. It was one of the sources of my power, that knowledge.”
― John Williams

“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”
― Jose Saramago

“Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation,”
― Bernard Bailyn, Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress