Browder Quotes & Sayings

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. — Earl Browder

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. — Earl Browder

'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction. — Ben Browder

I don't fear the things that go 'bump' in the night. It's the things that go 'RRAAAAARGGH!' that bother me. — T. Joseph Browder

Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to. — Shilpa Menon

How could you not wanna be in 'Doctor Who' at least once in your career? — Ben Browder

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things. — Ben Browder

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. — Earl Browder

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. — Earl Browder

Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. I am the pinnacle of humanity - a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon. — Brian Herbert

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. — Earl Browder

Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you. — Bill Browder

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. — Earl Browder

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos

No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay. — Gwen Ifill

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. — Earl Browder

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform. — Earl Browder

You see a guy, is what you see. Only God got distracted before he could slap a dick on me and went on to the next in line. — Stephen King

I felt sorry for this little man with the big name as he strutted his stuff, feeding hungrily off the adoration he saw in others' eyes. For all his funniness, he seemed to me very sad. — Sue Ellen Browder

'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story. — Ben Browder

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions. — William Hamilton Maxwell

Don't be afraid to question. Don't be afraid to get fired. Don't be afraid to be wrong. — Ben Browder

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. — Justin Kan

You look pale, Soraya repeated, placing the stack of papers on the table. — Khaled Hosseini

If you care so much about it," she asks him, "then why did you run?"
He takes a moment before answering, shifting his weight and grimacing again. "Their work is good," he says. "It just isn't mine."
This baffles her. His motives - his hazy integrity. It was easy to dismiss Lev as "part of the problem" when she did not know him, but now it's not so easy. He's a paradox. This is a boy who almost blew himself to bits in an attempt to kill others, and yet he offered himself to the parts pirate in order to save Miracolina's life. How could someone go from having no respect for one's own existence to being willing to give himself as a sacrifice for someone he barely knows? It flies in the face of the truths that have defined Miracolina's life. The bad are bad, the good are good, and being caught in between is just an illusion. There is no gray. — Neal Shusterman

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. — Earl Browder

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. — Henry David Thoreau

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter. — Kelly Slater

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. — Earl Browder

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. — Earl Browder

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. — Earl Browder