Elementally Good Quotes & Sayings

True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people. — Sunday Adelaja

There is no such things as race," said Morrison. "Racism is a construct; a social construct. And it has benefits. Money can be made off of it. People who don't like themselves can feel better because of it. It can describe certain kinds of behavior that are wrong or misleading. So [racism] has a social function. But race can only be defined as a human being — Toni Morrison

Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin. — Leigh Brackett

The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us. — Swami Vivekananda

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole. — Santosh Kalwar

Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I'm sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes. — Catherynne M Valente

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site. — Richard Kern

Think meanly of me, Lina," said he. "Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea; I make no pretension to be better than my fellows. — Charlotte Bronte

The green man said, "I'm a fool, I suppose, to put any confidence in you. And yet I do. I am a free man, come from your own future to explore your age." "That is impossible." "The green color that puzzles your people so much is only what you call pond scum. We have altered it until it can live in our blood, and by its intervention have at last made our peace in humankind's long struggle with the sun. In us, the tiny plants live and die, and our bodies feed from them and their dead and require no other nourishment. All the famines, and all the labor of growing food, are ended." "But you must have sun." "Yes," the green man said. "And I have not enough here. — Gene Wolfe

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov