It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. – Audre Lorde
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused. – Bashar al-Assad
Because we’re not in harmony with the environment, we’re destroying the environment that supports us. – Bruce Lipton
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. – Adam Weishaupt
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. – A. R. Ammons
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. – Bertrand Russell
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. – Bryant H. McGill
We all know it’s brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear. – Arthur Frank Burns
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us. – Arthur Erickson
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. – Alexei Navalny
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader. – Ben Okri
We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into. – Bob Ehrlich
We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us. – Benjamin F. Wade
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. – Alice McDermott