When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick. – Proverb

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. – Luc de Clapiers

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. – Sheila Jackson Lee

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. – William Irwin Thompson