Akpanandoduma Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith, who suggested that the "horror of poverty" lay not in hunger but in "obscurity." Poor people suffer the indignity of being ignored. "To be wholly overlooked, and to know it, are intolerable." And if poor people cannot look to themselves, then they must look up to another person, whom they consider a hero. Their identification with heroes provided meaning in life. In a complicated set of discourses, John argued that all men, from the highest to the lowest ranks, depend upon titles to give meaning to their existence. — Edith B. Gelles

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. — Douglas MacArthur

What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour. — Thucydides

Oh Heavenly Father, goddess mother, spirits of the universe, let our vibrations be positive and our actions harmonious. — Karen McQuestion

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned, — John Calvin

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. — Trey Anastasio

The greatest threat to our planet is the idea that someone else will save it. Once the majority of individuals have become aware of themselves and the effect that they have on the world, humanity as a whole will, without a doubt, become a conscious collective. — Joseph P. Kauffman