Oligarchie Quotes & Sayings

The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. — Eric Hoffer

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. — W.E.B. Du Bois

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? — Muriel Barbery

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail. — David O. Selznick

A knight ending is really a pawn ending. — Mikhail Botvinnik

Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself. — Sue Fitzmaurice

There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score. — Ashly Lorenzana

Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them. — Mark Victor Hansen

I found myself teetering on the edge of Uh-oh, and looking straight down the barrel of Oh, shit. — Beth Harbison

What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures ( ... ) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation. — George Scialabba

It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths. — Henry David Thoreau

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. — Kevin Cramer