Liz McFie

@lizmcfie.bsky.social

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity. PS. - Frank Serpico

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. - The Grapes of Wrath

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There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill? PS. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." PS. - George Orwell, Homage to Caledonia

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. PS. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. PS. - Adlai E. Stevenson

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance. PS. - Robert Green Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

"We live in a culture that doesn’t really understand or respect burnout. We all soak in this belief that exhaustion is weak and that we all need to just buck up and be a little bit less lazy." PS. – Caroline Dooner

The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out. PS. - Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. PS. - China Miéville, Perdido Street Station