Inhabiting Islands Quotes & Sayings

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice. — Immanuel Kant

Nature does not make leaps. — Gottfried Leibniz

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. — Thomas A. Edison

Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true love, and all the rest of it.
But apparently, Andre really had believed it. — Michael Crichton

I feel emotion rush me - the intimacy, the awkwardness. I want to revolt against it, but I don't. It takes an awful toll on a person to fight down everything they're feeling. — Tarryn Fisher

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent. — Glenn Greenwald

Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go. — Monica Murphy

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad. — Harper Lee

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them. — Rabindranath Maharaj

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti

We quote from books. Movies are made from books. Musicals are made from books. Much of our religion and spiritual belief comes from books. Books can help us understand who we are and why we do what we do and think what we think. Books teach us about life and humanity. Sometimes books can remind us we can overcome all that life throws at us. Books entertain us, and I cannot imagine a life without books. — Andrew McAleer

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down. — Tupac Shakur

She said she doesn't like your cooking. She said she'd rather eat a microwave dinner from the convenience store instead of something you cooked. Do you get it? Hm? Why are you being such a crybaby? Save the salt from your tears for seasoning. — Kanoko Sakurakouji

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it. — Maria McCann