Landaas Pershing Quotes & Sayings

Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence. — Maurice Blanchot

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. — Cyrus The Great

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. — Dan Barker

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world. — Simon Baker

A simple dream, set in a city park, along an avenue of mature elms, whose overarching branches turned the avenue into a green tunnel into which the sky and the sunlight were dripping, here and there, through the perfect imperfections in the canopy of leaves. — Salman Rushdie

We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. — Roy Blunt

In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing. — Jello Biafra

Sometimes it seems that we initiate a scene and sometimes it seems that we're just taking part in the scene. Actually, we're initiating them all. — Art Hochberg

Why should we believe in God? We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred. We must know how to hate, for only at this price can we conquer the universe ... The fight should also be developed in the Moslem and Catholic countries, with the same ends in view and by the same means. — Gerald Burton Winrod

We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. — Victor Hugo