Revolta Do Contestado Quotes & Sayings

Necessitous men are not free men. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is a secret earth gyrm, a place where the unbelievable, the unthinkable, the terrible, takes place every day. A place hidden by the veils of ignorance and cowardice and fear. On occasions we glimpse it, when its hidden terrors fall through that veil into plain sight, but mostly we just dismiss it as something else, somewhere else, to be dealt with by someone else. Long ago I found the veil and lifted it. And knowing as I do what is behind, what those behind it get away with, with impunity ... I cannot grow old basking on the bank of some safe-haven, no. — Shaun Hick

Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent. — James Vila Blake

This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them. — Thomas Hobbes

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. — Rumi

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music. — Dule Hill

somewhere between hello and I want this job, he'd lost all business sense and hired the pretty lady just because she wanted the job. Was it because she turned him into a seventeen-year-old with raging hormones? — Dolores Wilson

When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it. — Robert Kegan

When I say "when you're always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly," I mean that you don't always take care of yourself. — Ladyhawke

We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was. — Fredrik Backman

Thomas stares at the floor between us with hollow eyes. "I loved him, June," he says after a moment. "I really did. Everything I did as a soldier, all my hard work and training, was to impress him." His guard is finally down, and I can see the true depth of his torture now. — Marie Lu

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down. — Michael Moriarty

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is. — George Voinovich