Segregations Quotes & Sayings

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time. — Willem De Kooning

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligation
to speak with Christian advice. — Billy Graham

To say that I fail at small talk is like saying Superman dislikes kryptonite. — Ruby Dixon

Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today. — Nelson Mandela

Trauma can have a masking effect. — Asa Don Brown

Clearly some complicated process of sorting-out was in progress among those who surrounded me: though only years later did I become aware how early such voluntary segregations begin to develop; and of how they continue throughout life. — Anthony Powell

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent. — Anthony Quinn

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better. — Malcolm Forbes

I said 'Whoa, little hottie,
I'm not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti.
I don't deal coke,
And furthermore you're making me broke.
I'll put you in a rehab and I won't tell your folks.'
And what do you know,
In 18 months she came home,
And I let her back in ...
And now she's sniffing again. — Daryl Barnes

Because it's not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely. — Sandor Marai