Clubbed Fingers Quotes & Sayings

Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted. — Thomas Pynchon

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved. — Criss Jami

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted. — Frederick Lenz

In the fall of 1932, Bergelson undertook the longest journey of his life. He traveled the Trans-Siberian Railway all the way through Siberia and beyond, disembarking just fifty miles shy of the border with China, in the budding Jewish autonomy of Birobidzhan. The Jews of Birobidzhan welcomed him grandly, as if he were a long-lost descendant of a royal Yiddish tribe. A plenary session of the settlement council convened in his honor. He toured the new collective farms in the company of local authorities. He participated, as a guest of honor, in the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution - an unprecedented role for a foreign national. — Masha Gessen

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over — Francois Rabelais

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible. — Audre Lorde

What?" she said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable under his scrutiny. She knew it was silly. He'd seen her at her absolute worst.
"You just look so... cute," he said. "Clearly breaking the law excites you. — B. J. Daniels

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at. — Jay Samit

Growing up on the ship, none of them had ever known true darkness, and this way, their dead would always have some light shining down on them. — Kass Morgan

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration. — Jasper Fforde

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects. — Martha N. Beck

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven. — Alice Cooper