Sara Oglu Ibrahim Quotes & Sayings

If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be. — Ron Paul

Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America. — Jennifer Harrison

A policing of sex: that is, not the rigor of a taboo, but the necessity of regulating sex through useful and public discourses. A few examples will suffice. One of the great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem: population as wealth, population as manpower or labor capacity, population balanced between its own growth and the resources it commanded. Governments perceived that they were not dealing simply with subjects, or even with a "people," but with a "population," with its specific phenomena and its peculiar variables: birth and death rates, life expectancy, fertility, state of health, frequency of illnesses, patterns of diet and habitation. — Michel Foucault

Agitation gives birth to creation. — Terry Tempest Williams

Midway through, a fuzzy-chinned young man approaches the desk with a battered copy of Dune and a motley handful of coins. Mo waves him away. Oh, just take it, Felix. Spend the money on a haircut. — Robin Sloan

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done. — Walter Lippmann

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ — Brian H. Hook