Kind: Quotes

Rabbi Shimon bar Yocḥai says: Come and see how beloved the Jewish people are before the Holy One, Blessed be He. Every place they were exiled, the Divine Presence went with them. They were exiled to Egypt, and the Divine Presence went with them, as it says: “Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt?” (I Samuel 2:27). They were exiled to Babylonia, and the Divine Presence went with them, as it is stated: “For your sake I have sent to Babylonia” (Isaiah 43:14). So too, when, in the future, they will be redeemed, the Divine Presence will be with them, as it is stated: “Then the Lord your God will return with your captivity” ( Deuteronomy 30:3). It does not state: “He will bring back”, but rather “He will return,” which teaches that the Holy One, Blessed be He, will return together with them from among the exiles.

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 29a

We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective

–Kurt Vonnegut

Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.

– Wanda Sykes

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

–Audre Lorde

If you don’t want your teenager reading this book, that’s your right as a mom – and good luck with that. But you don’t have the right to say nobody’s kid can read this book.

— Nora Roberts, author

Down there – he said – are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.

–Terry Pratchett , “Guards! Guards!”

The word woke is becoming more beautiful by the day. Why? Because the absolute worst people on earth use it as a slur against everything that is good. Stay woke.

–Jason Overstreet

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

–Jimi Hendrix

Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is.

–LeVar Burton

Granny Weatherwax: “sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
Mightily Oates: “It’s a lot more complicated than that–”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

–from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.

We’re having a bullshit conversation about the future of ‘super intelligent AI’ while our automated bureaucracy kills children.

–Greg Borenstein

Absolutely stellar job Republicans. Extra credit for further traumatizing a survivor of rape in the process. Bless your little hearts you’re just so overflowing with that wholesome Christian love we all just can’t get enough of that I’m overwhelmed with feelings of gratitude and completely at a loss for words as to how I should express my praise.