Kathrada Ahmed Quotes & Sayings

WE WERE ALL UP IN THAT SHIT LIKE A MUTHAFUCKA. IT'S CLEANER THAN A BROKE DICK DOG. — Miles Davis

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. — Ahmed Kathrada

The higher up the food chain the targeted individual was, the bigger a pussy he was. — Mark Owen

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse. — Ahmed Kathrada

Unlike the hot line frequently depicted in Hollywood films, the new system didn't provide a special telephone for the president to use in an emergency. It relied on Teletype machines that could send text quickly and securely. Written statements were considered easier to translate, more deliberate, and less subject to misinterpretation than verbal ones. Every — Eric Schlosser

They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation ... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained. — John Maynard Keynes

From now on .... When it rains .... Think of me — Lisa De Jong

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more. — Ahmed Kathrada

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. — Hosea Ballou

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book. — Cassie Steele

If we understand each other, we can live together in harmony. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you! — Robert Fanney

Capitalism's final victory will be that, as it destroys us, it has us all blaming each other. — Vic Grout

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale. — Richard Bayan

Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among the breadcrumbs and the stained napkins again. That knife is already congealing with grease. Disorder, sordidity and corruption surrounds us. We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds. It is with these greasy crumbs, slobbering over napkins, and little corpses that we have to build. Always it begins again; always there is the enemy; eyes meeting ours; fingers twitching ours; the effort waiting. Call the waiter. Pay the bill. We must pull ourselves up out of the chairs. We must find our coats. We must go. Must, must, must - detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of all that", find that the wave has tumbled me over, head over heels, scattering my possessions, leaving me to collect, to assemble, to head together, to summon my forces, rise and confront the enemy. — Virginia Woolf

It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do. — Malala Yousafzai

The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience. — Vasily Grossman