Oods Oklahoma Quotes & Sayings

Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote. — Howard Zinn

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged. — Nicholas Kristof

If you guys wanted to blend in, you shouldn't have send Dimples here. The way some of the women are staring at him, I might end up having to protect him instead. -Relentless — Karen Lynch

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. — William M. Evarts

I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them. — Quentin Tarantino

Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about. — Lysa TerKeurst

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing. — Laura Z. Hobson

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things. — Tanya Huff

Love can only be found through the act of loving. — Paulo Coelho

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile. — Jacqueline Novogratz