Resistance Movements Sociology Quotes & Sayings

To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL. — Richie Norton

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection. — Robertson Davies

It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern" — Aeriel Miranda

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others. — Charles Handy

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. — Lily King

Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market. — Thomas Frank

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.' — Bill Cosby

They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world. — Diane Ackerman

A ship's a fool to fight a fort. — Horatio Nelson

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. — Henry Petroski

The only thing we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made. — Hajime Isayama

It's good to want God to speak to you, but smarter to let God speak through you, because when God speaks through you, more than one can hear. — Donald L. Hicks

In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it! — Harry S. Truman

Unless we suppress our conscience, we naturally know basic moral truths. General virtues and vices, Thomas Reid wrote, "must appear self-evident to every man who has a conscience, and has taken the pains to exercise this natural power of his mind" ("Of Morals"). — Anonymous