Aztec And Mayan Quotes & Sayings

Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck. — Craig Hatkoff

At the collective level, pride is expressed in the conviction of being superior to others as a nation or a race, of being the guardian of the true values of civilization, and of the need to impose this dominant "model" on "ignorant" peoples by any means available. This attitude often serves as a pretext for "developing" the resources of underdeveloped countries. The conquistadors and their bishops burned the vast Mayan and Aztec libraries of Mexico, of which barely a dozen volumes survive. Chinese textbooks and media continue to describe Tibetans as backward barbarians and the Dalai Lama as a monster. It was pride, above all, that allowed the Chinese to ignore the hundreds of thousands of volumes of philosophy housed in Tibetan monasteries before they demolished six thousand of those centers of learning. — Matthieu Ricard

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that. — Will Self

National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order. — Adolf Hitler

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. — John Podhoretz

Coming up with the right questions was even more important than coming up with the right answers. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

For I am my mother's daughter, and ... — Mary McLeod Bethune

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. — Morley Safer