Gwardamangia Quotes & Sayings

Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment. — Pearl Zhu

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all - by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians - be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing. — Wendell Berry

We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man. — Watchman Nee

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants, — Scott Raab

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. — George Santayana

A politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence — Reginald Hill

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures ... They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling. — Allan Bloom