Emotionally Blackmailing Quotes & Sayings

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty. — Voltairine De Cleyre

After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good. — Swami Vivekananda

Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that - some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it. — Common

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced. — Jacques Ranciere

Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body. — Marty Rubin

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters - first and foremost - how they behave. — Malcolm Gladwell

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself. — Walter J. Phillips

However, the fickle strivings of her heart and her mind did not encounter a will in her that, without limiting them, could guide them and keep her from becoming their charming and fragile plaything. — Marcel Proust

Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, "the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations - in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward. — Neal Stephenson

The God that can be named is not God. — Soren Kierkegaard

If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible. — LeCrae

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. — James Baldwin