very funny)"People borrow his money, steal his servants, lose his golf balls, . . .leave him flat whenever something more attractive offers and carry it off with their cheerful slogan, 'Oh he won't mind-- He's a Good Soul' And that's just it -- Good Souls never do mind. . . Yes there can be no doubt about it --their reward will come to them in the next world. Would that they were even now enjoying it!"
Jo Goodwin Parker's "What is Poverty?"(not funny at all)
"You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no 'proper' underwear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. . ."
Joyce Maynard's "I Remember . . ." (made me say, oh!)
"We grew up to be observers, not participants, to respond to action, not initiate it. And I think finally, it was this lack of real hardship (when we lacked for nothing else) that was our greatest hardship and that led so many among this television generation to seek out some artificial pain."
Horace Miner's "Bodily Ritual among the Nacirema" you've all probably already read it.
And Walter Murdoch's "On Rabbits, Morality, Etc" (I used to have a very pedantic and moralistic teacher who always said: choices and consequences -- I wish I had read this then)
"An action must be considered with its consequences; with the sum total of its consequences. And as no human being will live to see the sum total of the consequences of any of his actions -- for the ultimate consequence cannot be known until time comes to an and -- we can never say that a given action is absolutely good or absolutely bad."