Shelby

“Thrivability emerges from each of us holding the persistent intention to be generative: that is to say, to create more value than we consume.”
― Jean M. Russell, Thrivability: Breaking Through to a World That Works

“The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.”
― Gar Alperovitz, What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

“People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.”
― Simon Blackburn

“The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.”
― James A. Garfield