Death Among Americans Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face. — Nema Al-Araby

The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things. — Emile Durkheim

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized. — Simone De Beauvoir

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or even most Muslims - were violent, the world would already be in flames. Most people simply want to live their lives in peace, with some degree of material comfort. I find it bizarre - and disturbing - that so many Americans imagine that being a Muslim somehow trumps human nature and makes ordinary simple people want to rise up and kill everyone. That takes a special kind of stupid. — Dave Champion

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister. — Alexei Navalny

Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name. — G. Willow Wilson