Flygirl Box Quotes & Sayings

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. — Michael Pollan

Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble. — Gloria Steinem

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is divided into two categories; men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow. — Phil Elvrum

Of course it's complicated. If it wasn't, I probably wouldn't be interested in you. — Pleasefindthis

One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind. — Yishan Wong

In 1985, in Batson v. Kentucky, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits prosecutors from discriminating on the basis of race when selecting juries, a ruling hailed as an important safeguard against all-white juries locking up African Americans based on racial biases and stereotypes. — Michelle Alexander

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God. — Matt Chandler