Kottarakkara News Quotes & Sayings

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. — E.F. Schumacher

You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped — Bertolt Brecht

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! — Grant Allen

You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others. — Geoffrey Cowan

Mature material. Where once he had hollered through — Rick Bragg

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again. — Larry Sanger

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.' — Ally Condie

Welcome to death. — Diana Rowland

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. — Emily Greene Balch

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it. — Bernard Malamud

We received our colouring from the Norsemen, hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones who sacked Rome. Fear only feeble old age and death in bed. Don't forget who you are. — Janet Fitch

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day. — Tommy Rettig

Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing - the reason they can fly. — Mary Oliver

He was the epitome of danger and safe all in one breath." ~Isadore Taylor — Lucian Bane