Greifenberg Quotes & Sayings

There is a particular view, still popular among left-wing intellectuals in the West, that the Soviet system was "socialism gone wrong." This thought expresses precisely the major political danger of our times, which is the belief that politics involves a choice of systems, as a means to an end, so that one system may "go wrong" while another "goes right." The truth is that socialism is wrong, precisely because it believes that it can go right - precisely because it sees politics asa means to an end. Politics is a manner of social existence, whose bedrock is the given obligations from which our social identities are formed. Politics is a form of association which is not a means to an end, but an end in itself. It is founded on legitimacy, and legitimacy resides in our sense that we are made by our inheritance. — Roger Scruton

People would come and people would go, I realized then, but music would be there until the end of time. — Len Vlahos

You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church. — Warsan Shire

Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged. — Kate Griffin

It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. — David Icke

We were supposed to be brainstorming. But, unfortunately, my brain was farting. — Rachel Renee Russell

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa. — Ruben Blades

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ... If this continues, I withdraw my subscription. — Victor Hugo

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. — Benjamin Franklin