Dulcificante Quotes & Sayings

Our wish is that ... [there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers. — Thomas Jefferson

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed. — Karl Marx

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay. — G.I. Gurdjieff

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection. — James K. Polk

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. — Rollo May

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean. — Jenny Holzer

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But don't wobble. — Yunmen Wenyan

I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had swung back to Simon. — Dodie Smith

How could we have allowed the instinct bred within us over the centuries to draw lines and never cross them, an infinity of lines, ever-smaller lines, ever-sharper distinctions? I grieved for Didi's generation of "girls of good family," who put caste, duty and family reputation before self-indulgence. — Bharati Mukherjee

Stellar Wind blew past the Supreme Court on the authority of a dubious opinion sent to the White House the week that the Patriot Act became law. It came from John Yoo, a thirty-four-year-old lawyer in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel who had clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Yoo wrote that the Constitution's protections against warrantless searches and seizures did not apply to military operations in the United States. The NSA was a military agency; Congress had authorized Bush to use military force; therefore he had the power to use the NSA against anyone anywhere in America. The — Tim Weiner

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. — Sebastian Horsley