Why should creatures subject to pregnancies not be able to exercise their rights…

There is only one proof of ability-Action. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quote.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher quote.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were terribly and terrifyingly normal… Hannah Arendt quote.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. Hannah Arendt quote. Albert Anker painting.

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die every day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue. Betty Williams quote. Albert Edelfelt painting.

The atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains…without God. His mind is open to every new truth after it has passed the warder, called Reason, at the gate. Annie Besant quote. Erik Werrenskiold painting.

To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quote. Art by Ambrose McEvoy.

A scientist in their laboratory is not a mere technician. They are also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress them as though they were fairy tales. Madame Curie. Art by Ellen Day Hale.