Sfsu Gateway Quotes & Sayings

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times. — Bertrand Russell

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead. — Rachel Vincent

Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell ... lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior. — Chris Crutcher

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals. — Kevin Nealon

It's crazy how much energy we spend trying to avoid these hard topics when they're really the only ones that can set us free. — Brene Brown

I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that? — Jerome K. Jerome

There is no power greater than sacrificial love. It can destroy the strongest of enemies, pierce the darkest of nights, and heal the most damaged of hearts. — Quinn Loftis

She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books. — Alexander McCall Smith

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball. — Justin Tuck

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection? — Marc Chagall