Leafleting Union Quotes & Sayings

In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ruled by the laws of exchange value, literature is required to submit itself to the requirements of the market and must learn, like any other commodity, to adapt and serve needs that lie outside of itself and its concrete value. It is forced to stand not for itself but for an ideological cause of one sort or another, whether it be political, social or literary. It cannot exist for itself: like everything else it has to be justified. And for this very reason the power of storytelling is automatically devalued. Literature is reduced to the status of complimentary utilitarian functions: as a pastime to provide distraction and entertainment, or as a heightened activity that would claim to explore 'great truths' about the human condition. — Michael Richardson

What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict. — Dada Bhagwan

Job tries to comfort himself with philosophical pessimism like the intellectuals of the nineteenth century. But God comforts Job with indecipherable mystery, and for the first time Job is comforted. . . . Job flings at God one riddle, God flings back at Job a hundred riddles, and Job is at peace. He is comforted with conundrums. — G.K. Chesterton

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. — Dr. Seuss

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination. — Nico Mirallegro

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic. — Ameen Rihani

Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smith, published in 1864, — Erich Von Daniken

Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom. — Sarah Waters