Emiko Taira Quotes & Sayings

The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one. — Benjamin Franklin

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. — Sara Gruen

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker

Beauty is the gift of God — Aristotle.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend. — Daniel Dennett

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage. — Jimi Hendrix

The makeup of your thoughts is exposed through your internal dialog. — Stephen Richards

Our body is a moulded river — Novalis

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do. — P. J. O'Rourke

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting? — Jandy Nelson