Dispossessed Book Quotes & Sayings

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception. — Pliny The Elder

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition. — Rowan Atkinson

Every word decides a question between power and liberty. — James Madison

First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Once you learn how to diw, you learn how to live — Morrie Schwartz.

His expression practically hung out a shingle announcing the topic was off-limits. — Myra McEntire

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience. — Oscar Wilde

You got to give yourself a break and live a little. Don't get swallowed up by all your problems. — Anonymous

I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet. — Tito Ortiz

As a World-trekker, go-getter
Retirement won't have you stopping
You'll be seen where the bananas and mangos come from
At the supermarket ... doing the shopping — John Walter Bratton

The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash. I spent two years traveling the country to write a book on the Christian Right called American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. I visited former manufacturing towns where for many the end of the world is no longer an abstraction. They have lost hope. Fear and instability have plunged the working classes into profound personal and economic despair, and, not surprisingly, into the arms of the demagogues and charlatans of the radical Christian Right who offer a belief in magic, miracles, and the fiction of a utopian Christian nation. And unless we rapidly re-enfranchise our dispossessed workers into the economy, unless we give them hope, our democracy is doomed. — Chris Hedges