Knaben Database Quotes & Sayings

The public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights. — Hannah Arendt

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. — Dick Gregory

For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit-scroungers — Patrick Kingsley

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain. — Sheila Jackson Lee

All you who are in love
Aye and can not remove it
I pity the pain that you endure.
For experience lets me know
That your hearts are filled with woe
It's a woe that no mortal can cure.
-the Curragh of Kildare — Maggie Stiefvater

People that sneeze really loud in public need to find a hobby or a better way to try to get people's attention — Robert J. Braathe

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship ... a dictatorship of painters ... a dictatorship of one painter ... to suppress all those who have betrayed us ... — Pablo Picasso

Vice pays for its own freedom. — Jose Rizal

...most people would rather feel guilty than feel helpless. — Peter Trachtenberg

Palestinians need to stop the incitement. They need to stop that kind of activity. But at the same time, there is a need to see the broader conflict here and understand that there has to be some kind of ultimately negotiated political track that's going to resolve the difference between Palestinians and Israelis. — John F. Kerry

I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one. — Charles Starkweather

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous. — Claire Coffee