Africa Heart Of Darkness Quotes & Sayings

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable. — Kurt Vonnegut

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is. — Rush Limbaugh

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them. — Ivan Pavlov

There's no point in getting angry. Anger makes you ask questiona. Anger sets up expectations and demands to know the truth. — Gayle Friesen

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. — Camille Paglia

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult ... I apologize. — Edward Abbey

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order. — Peter York

Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. — Langston Hughes

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life. — John Duover

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now. — James St. James

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi

What is 'leveling' and how does it work? — Felicia Day

Nearly every English speaker interested in Africa read Stanley's Through the Dark Continent (1878), and nearly everyone who read Stanley came away viewing African people as savages, including novelist Joseph Conrad, who authored the classic Heart of Darkness in 1899. The White character's journey up the Congo River "was like traveling back to the earliest beginning of the world" - not back in chronological time, but back in evolutionary time.2 — Ibram X. Kendi