Burghart Wood Quotes & Sayings

Words like "Society" and "State" are so concretized that they are almost personified. In the opinion of the man in the street, the "State," far more than any king in history, is the inexhaustible giver of all good; the "State" is invoked, made responsible, grumbled at, and so on and so forth. Society is elevated to the rank of a supreme ethical principle; indeed, it is even credited with positively creative capacities. — C. G. Jung

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa. — Angela Davis

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind. — Joseph Brodsky

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game. — James Altucher

The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. — Douglas Adams

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. — Stephen Covey

Open yourself to the natural and become a human again. — Bryant McGill

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Nothing that is so, is so. — William Shakespeare

Though I probably didn't have much of a heart left to break, you broke mine, and now I can hardly breathe. I need you. — Alysha Speer

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. — Sanya Richards-Ross

Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better - we'd have interracial bisexuality! — Andrew Garfield