Bajes Kwartier Quotes & Sayings

Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform
even a Salvation Army uniform
they would start screaming hysterically. — Andrei Cherny

Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships. — Neal Stephenson

There is a risk of becoming linguistically schizophrenic. Because your brain is so fluent in both languages, it is fooled into thinking that the structure you have put together in the target language is correct merely because it is correct in the source language. — Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown

It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective ... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium. — Karel Capek

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me. — Denise Duhamel

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat. — Bill Shankly

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. — Tacitus

A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution. — John Maynard Keynes

When the words demand attention, they must be delivered! — K.C. Rhoads

I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors. — Warren Farrell

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to. — Rory Freedman

Honour to the immortal dead, that great ... company of shining souls who gave their youth that the world might grow old in peace.
- Louise N. Parter — Joseph C. Banks

He loved life. He loved the stars silently glowing down at him tonight. He loved even the gray, lifeless rock, which recalled to his imaginative genius the terrific and interesting life that had once existed
he loved the ghostly majesty of the grave-like pinnacle that rose above him, and beyond that he loved all the world.
But most of all, more than his own life or all that a thousand lives might hold for him, he loved the violet-eyed girl. — James Oliver Curwood