Did Not Finish Shelf

Heather > Heather's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 109
« previous 1 3 4
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
    9296 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2822 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Sherman Alexie
    “Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
    ― Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song
    tags: anger, equations, imagination, poetry
    381 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Frantz Fanon
    “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
    233 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Frantz Fanon
    “And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
    145 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Frantz Fanon
    “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
    presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
    evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
    extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
    is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
    ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
    1279 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Frantz Fanon
    “Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”
    ― Frantz Fanon
    181 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: poetry, wit
    100 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
    6013 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: politics
    553 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Pericles
    “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
    ― Pericles
    tags: politics
    767 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Edward Abbey
    “Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: politics
    491 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Philippa Gregory
    “The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
    113 likes

    • like
  • #14
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13167 likes

    • like
  • #15
    John F. Kennedy
    “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: human-rights, inspirational, politics
    1111 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
    1113 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    8037 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Jon Stewart
    “You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: democracy, government, humor, politics, public-opinion
    625 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Huey P. Newton
    “The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
    ― Huey P. Newton
    tags: anarchy, fate, politics, resignation, revolution, revolutionaries, war
    381 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!”
    ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
    tags: poetry-performed-by-patti-smith
    227 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    414 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Michael Pollan
    “He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: americans, chocolate, chocolate-cake, connotations, food, french, guilt, politics, semantics, word-association
    390 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Terry Jones
    “What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
    ― Terry Jones
    tags: bush, bushism, grammar, politics, terrorism
    110 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Malcolm X
    “The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    417 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Sidney Sheldon
    “the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”
    ― Sidney Sheldon, The Sands of Time
    tags: politics
    221 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau
    “The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”
    ― Pierre Elliott Trudeau
    tags: politics
    27 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Paul Feig
    “I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic--there's a group of people in this world that don't like conflict and care about what other people are going through, and then there's this other group of people in the world who hate that. 'Suck it up, man, we're not coddling you, take care of yourself, what's your problem?' It's jocks versus geeks, and I've always referred to life as perpetual high school because it never stops.”
    ― Paul Feig
    tags: nerd, politics
    19 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Malcolm X
    “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
    ― Malcolm X
    857 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Malcolm X
    “I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
    ― Malcolm X
    293 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Malcolm X
    “Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    595 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4
All Quotes



Tags From Heather’s Quotes

poetry
death
haiku
james-bond
philosophy
anger
equations
imagination
wit
patriotism
politics
character
commerce
conscience
happiness
humanity
knowledge
misattributed-to-gandhi
money
morality
pleasure
principle
sacrifice
science
sin
sins
wealth
work
worship
human-rights
inspirational
america
history
immigration
revolution
united-states
usa
democracy
government
humor
public-opinion
anarchy
fate
resignation
revolutionaries
war
poetry-performed-by-patti-smith
americans
chocolate
chocolate-cake
connotations
food
french
guilt
semantics
word-association
bush
bushism
grammar
terrorism
communism
freedom
hope
individualism
socialism
nerd