Saro Wiwa Quotes & Sayings

Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich. — Saul Friedlander

I'll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die. — Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go. — Elliot Kay

Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD. — Anonymous

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision. — Andy Stanley

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night. — Bertrand Russell

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future. — Ken Saro-Wiwa

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs. — Malcolm Gladwell

Never fall into the mistake of believing, said the examiner, that things are everywhere the way they are here, wherever here is, wherever everywhere is. — Jesse Ball

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them ... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show ... I had like five surgeries. — Phillip Phillips

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built. — Guy Laliberte

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs. — Robert Jordan

He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It's the weak man that must prove himself such. — A.C. Gaughen

The best leaders devote almost all of their energy to inspiring and enabling others. — Brad Lomenick