Samizdat Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. — Jack Kemp

We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. — Jeffrey Kluger

Fuck em if they can't take a joke — J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. — Mark A. Noll

Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. — Liu Cixin

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.
(to live well is to live concealed) — Rene Descartes

From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else
as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers. — Daniel Quinn

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world, — Fyodor Tyutchev