Awadama Quotes & Sayings

If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense against every conceivable contingency - so much 'security' that 'the secured' are without resources - helpless and hopeless. — Leonard Read

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist. — Thomas L. Friedman

What do you mean? (Fatima)
There's so much evil out there to protect him and others from. How can I fight for that and keep him safe simultaneously? (Stryder)
I still do not understand, milord. You are but one man with one sword to fight all the world. This is indeed a good thing. But when you are gone so too is your sword. So it seems to me that while it is important to fight the bad man, it is just as equally important to raise a good one. Raising more than one would be even better. That way when you are gone, you will leave a whole generation behind who will fight for what is right. (Fatima) — Kinley MacGregor

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. — Hermann Broch

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. — Lorde

everyone's so full of shit, born& raised by hypocrites. — Green Day

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand — Joni Mitchell

One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She — Kristin Hannah

Where the truth is censored, the truth grows fangs. — Marty Rubin

To elude nature, to refuse her friendship, and attempt to leap the river of life in the hope of finding God on the other side, is the common error of a perverted mysticality. It is as fatal in result as the opposite error of deliberately arrested development, which, being attuned to the wonderful rhythms of natural life, is content with this increase of sensibility; and, becoming a "nature-mystic," asks no more. — Evelyn Underhill

He who strays discovers new paths. — Nils Kjaer

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. — Samuel Morse