Asserts In Selenium Quotes & Sayings

On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism, libertarianism is a utopian worldview based on an economic-determinist vision of history. Unlike Marxism, libertarianism is highly specific in its predictions about the transition to the utopian world order, rendering it vulnerable to fact. — Michael Lind

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. — Patti Smith

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes. — Gwendolyn Brooks

As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to be released at last from the dreary frenzy of time. Is that what it feels to be naked? All one's clothes are gone, yet one's mind is overladen with finery. — Muriel Barbery

Bill Clinton is the only ex-president who hasn't planned his own funeral. But, in his defense, in the past he has said he wants to be buried next to Hillary. I guess he figures he never slept next to her when they were alive, might as well try it now that they're dead. — Jay Leno

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God. — Francis Howgill

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment. — George Bernard Shaw

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he. — S.A. Tawks