“One of history‘s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations”

“The working poor are the great philanthropists of our society” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

“A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left with no recourse but to use methods that mirror the oppressor.” Pg. 166

“One cannot say that it is mere idleness in their part, for an idle man cannot be a plongeur. They have simply been trapped by a routine that makes thought impossible.”

“The truth is more beautiful, even if it is a tragic beauty.”

Poverty frees them from their ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

“‘ The idea that there is somewhere we have to go, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.‘” Tenzin Palmo

“‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”‘ Jiddu Krishnamurti