Baladi Quotes & Sayings

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Alan Sillitoe

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win. — Genevieve Valentine

The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven. — N. T. Wright

I am a woman. And I am seeking an attitude. I am trying to find reasons for pride. — June Jordan

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily. — Edwin Land

Trust was what made everything possible. Trust lent you someone else's eyes, someone else's strong arms or quick brain. Made you bigger than just yourself. Trust was how the club worked. How this whole reckless dream of abolition could work, if people could just come together and hold their nerve. Now ever the Equals - not even their Skill - would be more powerful than that. — Vic James

Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All — William Graham Sumner

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline. — Carroll Quigley