Oppressive Leaders Quotes & Sayings

Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn't have before — Cassandra Clare

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way. — Mary Roach

Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal. — Bhartrhari

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this. — Lewis Carroll

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them. — Deborah Blum

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. — Masaharu Morimoto

In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ... — Joseph McCabe

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing. — Henri Nouwen

Maybe anger only needs the right melody, the right rhythm to be beautiful. — Emma Trevayne

She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses. — Edith Wharton

June is the gateway to summer ... — Jean Hersey

An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception. — Frederick Lenz

Our legacy comprises the spiritual, intellectual, relational, vocational, and social capital we pass on. It's the sum total of the beliefs you embrace, the values you live by, the love you express, and the service you render to others. — Michael Hyatt

Not a hothouse flower, this daughter of Leoch, despite her surroundings. — Diana Gabaldon