Biopolitics Example Quotes & Sayings

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the reputation of being a miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule. — Niccolo Machiavelli

So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.) — Elizabeth Strout

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. — Pat Conroy

What matters here is that the moment Cleopas and his friend recognized Jesus in the breaking of bread, his bodily presence was no longer required as a condition for their new hope. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

If this is Christianity, I don't want it. But Lord I want you. — Katie Andraski

I may not know who you are, where you are, or where you will be after I have gone, but I still love you. I came to this world to serve all of you. — Debasish Mridha

and Thor really likes hair, I guess
so he gets SUPER ANGRY
and he chases down Loki and is like "Hey
how about I cut of all of your FACE?!"
and Loki is like "But I need my face
for making infuriating smirks with! — Cory O'Brien

I like it when you're not perfect. — Kasie West

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses. — Megan Fox

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. — A. Alfred Taubman

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley

And even if we make good plans based on the best information available at the time and people do exactly what we plan, the effects of our actions may not be the ones we wanted because the environment is nonlinear and hence is fundamentally unpredictable. As time passes the situation will change, chance events will occur, other agents such as customers or competitors will take actions of their own, and we will find that what we do is only one factor among several which create a new situation. — Stephen Bungay

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. — C.E. Murphy

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue. — Tim Heidecker

I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider beauty. Later that extended to the opera, to the ballet, to architecture I saw, and even later still I came to realize that what I had seen in the paintings I could see in the fields or a river. I could see it in people. All of that I attribute to this book. — Ann Patchett