Schleicher Funeral Quotes & Sayings

the most general condition for guilt-free massacre is the denial of humanity to the victim. You call the victims names like gooks, dinks, niggers, pinkos, and jags. The more you can get high officials in government to use these names and others like yellow dwarfs with daggers and rotten apples, the more your success.... If contact is allowed, or it cannot be prevented, you indicate the contact is not between equals; you talk about the disadvantaged, the deprived. Troy Duster, "Conditions for Guilt-Free Massacre" (1971) — Brendan C. Lindsay

When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it. — Jacques Barzun

People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to — Erin Morgenstern

A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists. — John Steinbeck

We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident, — Catherynne M Valente

Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over. — Portia De Rossi

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice. — Rebecca Ferguson

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. — V.S. Pritchett

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for young people, the elderly, people of color, and the impoverished.36 At this historical juncture there is a merging of violence and governance along with the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. This becomes obvious in the emergence of a surveillance state in which social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions are viewed as both necessary and benign. Meanwhile, the state-sponsored society of hyper-fear increasingly regards each and every person as a potential terrorist suspect. — Henry A. Giroux

What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade and hold it at just the right angle. — Kevin Spacey

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. — Mary Antin

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore ... a lot of stuff people don't even hear. — Mick Ralphs

modern standards. No one expected that — C.S. Forester

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word ... which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin