Mademoral Quotes & Sayings

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self. — Nicholas Negroponte

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think. — Meryl Streep

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to). — George Bernard Shaw

To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs us our life. They have suffocated people for hundreds of years and if we don't stop them today no one else would do it tomorrow. — M.F. Moonzajer

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. — Antony Beevor

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers . — Clive Barker

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease. — Rodney Yee

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. — Sidney Hook

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever." — Judy Sheindlin

I don't want you running around with a little banana-handler! — Scott Parker

In the end, writing is not a full step toward self-healing, just a tiny, very tentative move in that direction. — Haruki Murakami

Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

Don't GIVE UP. And know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you JUST THE WAY THAT YOU ARE. — Nick Vujicic

Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish, of the Mexican war as seen by the deserting soldiers of Scott's army, of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America. And so on, to the limited extent that any one person, however he or she strains, can "see" history from the standpoint of others. — Howard Zinn