Planettale Quotes & Sayings

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force. — Woodrow Wilson

The brain shuts down, and the soul watches from a distance as the body tumbles at ever-increasing speed toward doom. This is because, though instinct is good at many things, it's stupid about death. — Max Gladstone

The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in Egypt, Iraq or Tunisia are not really representing Islam and Muslim people. Nowadays, political Islam is going through a crisis, however this crisis is necessary, for it will lead to a changing way of thinking. In order to make it out of this dead-end, reviewing political Islam becomes mandatory. — Tariq Ramadan

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal. — Sally Odgers

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! — Lord Byron

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. — Marcus Garvey

We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter. — Francis Spufford

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel

There was no telling who would win. It would definitely be close. But she knew which side she was pulling for. Go Red Sox. — Sherrilyn Kenyon