Oppressant Quotes & Sayings

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics. — Robert Winston

For the record, we're not friends. (Stryker) For the record, I don't care. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Play and write music the way you want the world to be. — Wayne Shorter

One seeks to contravene one's perceptions - why? So that one can wander utterly lost, without signposts or guide? — Philip K. Dick

Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, "When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children." She exclaimed, "You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars]." But Rabbi Hiyya replied, "There is a wheel which revolves in this world." - Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b — Joseph Telushkin

A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ... is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him. — Anthony Mary Claret

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers. — Molly Antopol

FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia — Carles Puyol

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children. — Meg Rosoff

Doubt is the only appropriate response for human beings. — Bill Maher

I wish to understand [Plato], but to treat him with as little reverence as if he were a contemporary English or American advocate of totalitarianism. — Bertrand Russell

I wonder, did that yellow flower really wink at me then bashfully lower her head? — Camelia Lica

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche. — Henry Ward Beecher