User:Jengod/Notable quotables

"Come one come all Free and equal" Thomas Nast cartoon promoting the passage of the 15th amendment (1869)

I don't want to worship at the cross of a man who kills his son in the name of salvation. I don't want to worship at an altar that denies the poor and the hungry and the enslaved, telling us to wait for heaven to be free. I don't want a God that denies the beauty of women, belying the beauty of the earth. I want the gifts of the mother, and I vow to find my way back to her...Mother Earth doesn't turn women who look back into pillars of salt.

— Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd

Each worker ends up doing the thing they’re best at relative to the other things they could be doing, rather than the thing they’re best at relative to other people.

— Noahpinion, explaining comparative advantage

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

— Isaiah 6:8 (Taken out its religious-martial-apocalyptic context, I think the volunteer spirit encoded here is one of the things that makes Wikipedia and the world a functional place; people just pitch in to make things better where and how they can.)

People had more than they needed, people didn't know what was precious and what wasn't, people threw away things they kill each other for now.

— The Book of Eli (2010)

Like many other historians, I cringe when I hear people saying, "This is not who we are." Because historically, it is who we are. Again and again. I think it's better to say, "This is not who I want us to be." And then ask yourself what you can do to change that?

— Jacqueline Antonovich, Jan 7 2021

Mistakes are encouraged here. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying new things and challenging yourself.

— Unknown

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you're getting the best possible information.

— Michael Scott, The Office, "The Negotiation" by Michael Schur

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to make sure you have as much as them.

— Louis C.K.

The job is love.

— My husband

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!

— Langston Hughes (1935)

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

— June Jordan

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

— Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

The hours are bad and the pay sucks, but at least at the end of the day everyone hates you.

— An old saying about editing Wikipedia journalism

wikipedia, after ideological republicanism, is the most successful utopian project in history

— @revhowardarson

The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.

— Unknown, quoted by User:Kizor, as quoted in The New York Times

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.

— Attributed to Harry S. Truman

Teach everything you know.

— T-shirt I saw at Big Lots