Actifs Circulants Quotes & Sayings

One parody is worth a thousand polemics ... — Jennifer Stone

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time. — Marty Rubin

If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery. — Gerald Holton

I've been writing as usual, but this is not a healthy lifestyle. I tried to change and work during the day, but found that the morning sun saps my energy. So what am I going to do ... ? — Kyousuke Motomi

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example. — Sharon Law Tucker

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us. — Pope Francis

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies. — Stewart Udall

Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we've had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness. — Jimmy Carter

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. — Thomas Sowell

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell

But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget," Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and sooner or later someone else comes along all over again. We go through our lives like that, and either we just accept the lesser relationship
it may not be total understanding, but it's pretty good
or we keep trying for the perfect union, trying and failing, leaving behind us a trail of broken hearts, our own included. In the end, we die as alone as we were born, having struggled to understand others, to make ourselves understood, but having failed in what we once imagined was possible. — Nicole Krauss