Bloques Ornamentales Quotes & Sayings

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious. — Theodore Dalrymple

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media
none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. — Howard Zinn

The empty swing set reminds us of this
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time. — Jacqueline Woodson

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. — Oscar Wilde

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath
and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world. — Sam Harris

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple. — Anzia Yezierska

Oh yeah,Call said under his breath. I'm the crazy one. Nothing to worry about at the ole Magisterium. Evil pony school, here we come. Pg. 58 — Holly Black

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy. — Andrew Sullivan

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down. — Nelson Mandela

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate. — Tobey Maguire