Alliask Quotes & Sayings

You do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. — Vaclav Havel

Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so? — Dada Bhagwan

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California. — Duncan Hunter

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life. — Michael Meade

Conservatives are more religious than liberals
although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it. — Andy Rooney

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. — Ann Brashares

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the "offender." This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves. — Thomas Szasz

If you're going to stab a man, at least have the courtesy to look him in the eyes while you do it. -- Dacey Sinnett — Dez Schwartz

There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things. — Paulo Coelho

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats? — William Powell