Boyajian Quotes & Sayings

One continually hears the declaration that the direct primary [for legislative offices] will take power from the politicians and give it to the people. This is pure nonsense. Politics has been, is, and always will be carried on by politicians, just as art is carried on by artists, engineering by engineers, business by businessmen. All that the direct primary, or any other political reform, can do is affect the character of the politicians by altering the conditions that govern political activity, thus determining its extent and quality. The direct primary may take advantage and opportunity from one set of politicians and confer them upon another set, but politicians there will always be so long as there is politics. (Cited in Key 1965, 394-95) — Marty Cohen

Logic only gives man what he needs," he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants. — Tom Robbins

We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer ... They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest ... without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women. — Marion Kirkland Reid

Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks the streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?' And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. — Fernando Pessoa

I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused and thought. "I want everything. — Neil Gaiman

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey. — Doug Dorst

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent. — Gina Barreca

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity. — P.D. James

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is the door; if you have an old, old story, that is the door. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I yell at the players if I don't like the way they are playing. But when they're playing well, I hug them. — Jaromir Jagr

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. — Jane Levy

A female may be poor or delicate or a spinster, but it does seem ill-advised of Miss Liddiard to combine all three. — Zen Cho

Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community. — Corliss Lamont