Delkus Basante Quotes & Sayings

The concrete, physical reality of inequality is visible to the naked eye and naturally inspires sharp but contradictory political judgments. Peasant and noble, worker and factory owner, waiter and banker: each has his or her own unique vantage point and sees important aspects of how other people live and what relations of power and domination exist between social groups, and these observations shape each person's judgment of what is and is not just. Hence there will always be a fundamentally subjective and psychological dimension to inequality, which inevitably gives rise to political conflict that no purportedly scientific analysis can alleviate. — Thomas Piketty

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle

In committing a work to memory we make it safe from decay. It stands untouched. Children memorize parts of stories their parents tell them. They want the same story again and again. Don't change a word or they get terribly upset. This is the unchanged narrative every culture needs in order to survive. — Don DeLillo

Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose. — Susan Mallery

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need. — Tom Hodgkinson

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — W. H. Auden

The bats inebriate the sky . . . — A.E. Stallings

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power ... — Joseph Sobran

I think I went more toward writing because that's my talent. I don't think I was a great performer ... And I like being behind the scenes a little bit. — Harvey Mason Jr.

And what of the memories Nix had claimed to have? The memories I was missing? Was my mind so malleable a stranger could change it? Were all of my thoughts now suspect? The wounds and the wonders I'd carried from my youth - the dreams and desires I'd fostered for my future . . . the love and longing for the girl who'd stolen my heart? — Heidi Heilig