Saltierthancrait Quotes & Sayings

Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa. — Henri Lefebvre

Being your sister is one of the best things about being me — Renee Ahdieh

The root of suffering is attachment — Gautama Buddha

No way it's up to me to decide which life is "better." So if it isn't up to me...I don't get it, ma. How can a life be saved if a life is lost? — John Arcudi

(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation while those who condemn him seek the basest goals of any people on the face of the earth. Perhaps it would be possible for the Negro to become reconciled to his plight if he could be made to believe that his sufferings were for some remote, high, sacrificial end; but sharing the culture that condemns him, and seeing that a lust for trash is what blinds the nation to his claims, is what sets storms to rolling in his soul.) — Richard Wright

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it. — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
[Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.] — Tacitus

Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and his Christ have imparted wisdom (Dial. 7, 3). — Pope Benedict XVI

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches. — Peter Weiss

I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end. — Julie Kagawa

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad. — Zinedine Zidane

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. — William James