Jarecki Industries Quotes & Sayings

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise. — Eugene Jarecki

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe. — Madeleine L'Engle

My bugs don't have bugs. — Eoin Colfer

Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? — Bernhard Schlink

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else. — Arthur Young

[ ... ] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness. — Albert Camus

Luck hides behind sweat and toil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Christlike love is a gift of the Spirit. — Robert J. Whetten

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics. — George Nethercutt

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers