Jibreel Khazan Quotes & Sayings

It's okay to like jerks. I mean, it'd be better to like a nice guy, but there aren't any. — Daniel Handler

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. — James Clavell

First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price? — Carl Sagan

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained. — Arundhati Roy

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Rusche and Kirchheimer relate the different systems of punishment with the systems of production within which they operate: thus, in a slave economy, punitive mechanisms serve to provide an additional labour force
and to constitute a body of 'civil' slaves in addition to those provided by war or trading; with feudalism, at a time when money and production were still at an early stage of development, we find a sudden increase in corporal punishments
the body being in most cases the only property accessible; the penitentiary (the Hopital General, the Spinhuis or the Rasphuis), forced labour and the prison factory appear with the development of the mercantile economy. But the industrial system requires a free market in labour and, in the nineteenth century, the role of forced labour in the mechanisms of punishment diminishes accordingly and 'corrective' detention takes its place. — Michel Foucault

He calls himself the Prince of Merchants... He told me that he's got three daughters who live here. And that he failed them for many years. But he would not fail them this time. — Sarah J. Maas

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women. — Geraldine Brooks