Salikoko Mufwene Quotes & Sayings

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture. — Kode9

I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children. — George Foreman

prepared to make the ultimate wartime sacrifice that most governments demand of their able-bodied citizens, but his was one that regarded his life as of lesser value than the lives of whites making the same sacrifice. — Ralph Ellison

I always liked spy stories. — Walter Wager

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will. — Scott Peters

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant. — Hannah Arendt

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people. — Patti Smith

You're surprised at all the blood.
He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He's surprised, too. — Charles Benoit

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving. — Peter F. Hamilton

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned. — Michelle Paver

People always said to me, "You must have been dyslexic." I wasn't. Why is it that when a white kid can't read people say he's dyslexic but when a black kid can't read people say he "fell through the cracks." This is a racist thought. I was as white as they come, and I fell through the cracks known as my parents and the Los Angeles school system. That said, Dyslexia would make a great black name. Sounds like a good wide out for the Steelers. — Adam Carolla

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. — Charles De Secondat