Rutger Bregman
- From "Humankind"
If only we had the courage to take it more seriously, it's an idea that might just start a revolution. Turn society on its head. Because once you grasp what it really means, it's nothing less than a mind-bending drug that ensures you'll never look at the world the same again. So what is this radical idea? That most people, deep down, are pretty decent.
Theodore Roosevelt
- Quoted in Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
It was still the Wild West in those days, the Far West... It was a land of vast silent spaces, of lovely rivers, and of plains where the wild game stared at the passing horseman... We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst; and we saw men die violent deaths as they worked among the horses and cattle, or fought in evil feuds with one another; but we felt the beat of hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.
