Palaiopolis Quotes & Sayings

...their eyes are fixed upon the present gain, and they are blind to the future. — Peter Kalm

What are you bracing for?" he asked. "I already told you I'm not going to hurt you."
Inexplicably, sobs caught in my chest, but I managed to respond, "You've already hurt me, Caleb. Why would you do that? Why? — C.J. Roberts

It can never be wrong to give pleasure. — Augustine Birrell

When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest ... are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress. — Howard Zinn

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. — George Cukor

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. — Chogyam Trungpa