Distributist Perspectives Quotes & Sayings

We Woosters can bite the bullet. — P.G. Wodehouse

And what will be their fate?" he asked. "Forgive me master, but I am curious to know, so that my heart may prepare itself."
"Flesh without spirit," I said. "Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit. — Mika Waltari

Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own. — Addison Moore

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day. — Pete Hamill

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. — Alphonso Jackson

Your generosity is more important than your perfection. — Seth Godin

That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn. — Elena Ferrante

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. — George Herbert

[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures. — Jenna Bush

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of his mind's adventures for the voice of truth. Every speaking subject is the poet of himself and of things. Perversion is produced when the poem is given as something other than a poem, when it wants to be imposed as truth, when it wants to force action. — Jacques Ranciere

Her presence had not so much weight as to task thought, and yet enough to exercise it. — Thomas Hardy

I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people. Compared to that, the sale of a few women is trivial. — Mario Acevedo

If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky