Stephen Rhodes

“The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that belived they were eternal.”
― Camille Paglia

“I would encourage everybody listening to involve themselves in public life and politics to some extent. You know, democracy doesn't just function by itself. It needs people to make it work. And so whether that means working in the polls, whether that means joining a party, whether that means running for a local office, whether that means helping somebody else run for local office, think of politics as something that you can be in and you can be part of and you can play a role in because that's actually what will determine the outcome.”
― Anne Applebaum

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Sunday school stories are just another type of superhero comic. Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead