Sezione Dati Quotes & Sayings

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. — George Mason

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you. — Amit Kalantri

Perhaps the only comfort which remains
Is the unheeded clanking of my chains,
The which I make, and call it melody. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

My tendency to make awkward situations even more ininappropriate and uncomfortable was such a charming characteristic. — Olivia Harvard

There is not a single penal institution or reformatory in the United States where men are not tortured "to be made good," by means of the blackjack, the club, the straightjacket, the water-cure, the "humming bird" (an electrical contrivance run along the human body), the solitary, the bullring, and starvation diet. In these institutions his will is broken, his soul degraded, his spirit subdued by the deadly monotony and routine of prison life. — Emma Goldman

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. — Alfred North Whitehead

Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: "It was the happiest day of our lives!" While most of us are happy to be adopted, our own hearts tell us that adoption day was the most painful day of our lives, for the person with whom we shared deep intimacy suddenly disappeared from our world. — Sherrie Eldridge