Rigo Pinto

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“that all that mattered to you?” “The answer isn’t exactly satisfying.”
― David D. Hammons, Don't Eat The Glowing Bananas

“All trips end eventually. Is that any reason to renounce undertaking one and enjoying it? You only live once. Is that any reason to spoil the single life you do have?”
― André Comte-Sponville, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality