Raimonda Skeryte Quotes & Sayings

This is not just an abstract point. What I mean is that power has a social function. Its role is not just to enforce domination or to create winners and losers: it also organizes communities, societies, marketplaces, and the world. Hobbes explained this well. Because the urge for power is primal, he argued, it follows that humans are inherently conflictual and competitive. Left to express that nature without the presence of power to inhibit and direct them, they would fight until there was nothing left to fight for. But if they obeyed a "common power," they could put their efforts toward building society, not destroying it. "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war," Hobbes wrote, "and such a war as is of every man against every man. — Moises Naim

What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions - the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks. — Wally Lamb

I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music. — Frantisek Kupka

Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace. — E'yen A. Gardner

Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry. — Tracy Guzeman

Happiness is a dog sunning itself on a rock. We were not put on this Earth to be happy. We were put here to experience great things. — Melissa Bank