The best Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

Martin Luther King

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Most places would call it a crippling snowstorm. In Montana, we call it Tuesday.

Montana

This city is louder than a field of Montana grasshoppers. Y'know, the ones bigger than your thumb?

McCree / Cassidy in Overwatch

Montana

Montana girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Montana

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Montana - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Montana

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King

Faith

It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.

Martin Luther King

Character Honesty

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King

Love Hatred

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King

Friendship

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King

Teams Brothers Community

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King

Hope

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that!
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

Love Hatred Wisdom

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King

Tolerance USA Independence Day

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Martin Luther King

Hatred

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King

Progress Self-Confidence Motivation Positive Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King

Revolution Opinions

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King - Rede in St. Louis

War Peace Brothers Volkstrauertag

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King - during Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Peace Justice

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

Justice

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King

Vision Tolerance Human Rights 1963 Famous Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

Love Hatred

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King

Love Friendship Enemies & Opponents

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

Martin Luther King

Freedom USA

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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