Institutionally Sanctioned Quotes & Sayings

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet? (p.231) — Eduardo Galeano

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

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife. — Dave Pelzer

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. — Henry David Thoreau

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Capitalism created the possibility of employment. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world. — Scott Talbot Evans

Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits. — Lisa Unger

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. — Arthur Golden