Famous Sandra Boynton Quotes & Sayings

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter ... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war that they left us ... war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops. — Rachel Maddow

It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. — Ronnie Chan

She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out — Saira Viola

Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible? — Julia Kristeva

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated. — Alice Walker

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted. — Ludwig Von Mises

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists. — Alan Bradley

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? — Yann Martel