Cnclabs Quotes & Sayings

Time was God's first creation. — Walter Lang

The ills of the world, and their cures, are listed below: 1) A world of privilege is a world of elitism and injustice. Meritocracy is the cure. 2) Capitalism, the creed of "Greed is good", is the disease of materialism and objectification for the sole purpose of profiting the ownership class. A new spiritual, artistic, creative and intellectual paradigm is the cure. 3) Abrahamism is a mental illness. Illuminism is the psychological cure. 4) The religious divide between East and West has held back global progress. Illuminism, a religion of enlightenment and reincarnation in common with Eastern thinking, yet steeped in the most profound Western thinking, is the bridge. The — Michael Faust

I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little
not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell. — Mark Twain

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. — Ben Shahn

There's nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don't fit the stereotype yet. — Haruki Murakami

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. — Rose Schneiderman

I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off. — Jesse Ventura

Nothing lasts. Not love, not grief. — Susan Goodman

There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse. — Aleksandra Layland

Gay people never give up! — Erika Kari

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry. — Margaret Mazzantini

It's legitimate for the police to use violence because they are enforcing the law; the law is legitimate because it's rooted in the constitution; the constitution is legitimate because it comes from the people; the people created the constitution by acts of illegal violence. The obvious question, then: How does one tell the difference between "the people" and a mere rampaging mob? — David Graeber

Every day can be better than those before it if we have the courage to make it so. — Cordellya Smith

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny. — Joseph Conrad

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident. — Charles Marion Russell