Badwall Quotes & Sayings

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. — Maria Weston Chapman

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him. — Marcel Proust

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice. — Adam Braun

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about. — Eugene Ionesco

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable. — Penelope Lively

Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat. — Courtney Schafer

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master. — Vladimir Putin

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. — Colette

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Give her a weak man and she'll inadvertently run rings around him. He simply wasn't strong enough for her. — Sarah Rayner

The timeless instant passed. — Arthur C. Clarke

What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it. — William Lloyd Garrison