Brian Reeves:
CLASS OF 1989
Mead High SchoolClass of 1989
Spokane, WA
Brian's Story
Brian is from Spokane, Washington. Brian's schools include Mead High School. Brian later attended Western Washington University, Spokane Falls Community College. Brian works(ed) at Chemeketa Community College, Chaminade University Of Honolulu, Peace Corps.
Music Brian likes includes Gregory Isaacs, Tracy Chapman, Post-Modern. Books Brian likes include The Lord of the Rings, The Fourth Turning, Ernest Hemingway. Movies Brian likes include Dark City (Official), 2001: A Space Odyssey, There's Something About Mary. TV shows Brian likes include The Simpsons, The Backyardigans, The Boondocks.
One of Brian's favorite quotes is:""Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" - Euripides
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate." - Bertrand Russell
Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal a tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business. - The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 12
In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it isl that business men are intelligent in spite of the records of their stupidity; that they are kind and charitable in spite of the principles of sound business; that their lives are rich in...Expand for more
stead of the thin tiresome routines they know; and that a time is coming when they will not be afraid any more. - The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 15
"Well, we all got to make a livin'."
"Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
- The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 16
...When a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
- The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 19
"Look," the young man said. "S'pose you got a job a work, an' there's jus' one fella wants the job. You got to pay 'im what he asts. But... S'pose they's a hunderd men wants that job. S'pose them men got kids, an' them kids is hungry... Jus' offer 'em a nickel -- why, they'll kill each other fightin' for that nickel."
- The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 20
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.
- The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 25
"If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace." -- Eckert Tolle
""You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away-a man is not a piece of fruit." -- Willy Loman, Death of a Salesman".
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