Christien Charles Quotes & Sayings

I like the imp / in impossibility — Pierre Joris

If you always look over your shoulder, how can you still remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. — Dean Rusk

my dreams won't matter if I don't persevere to give them substance. — Christine Nolfi

Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones or watching MTV. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs; he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproduction he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate? A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms; whose feelings are made articulate in hymns to the joys of onanism or the killing of parents; whose ambition is to win fame and wealth in imitating the drag-queen who makes the music. In short, life is made into a nonstop, commercially prepackaged masturbational fantasy. — Allan Bloom

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower. — Johnny Carson

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand

The model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then, — Gloria Steinem