Stylianos Pattakos Quotes & Sayings

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals. — James Ellroy

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. — Thomas Merton

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. — Brad Holland

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside. — Deepak Chopra

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) — Jon Stewart

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine. — E. O. Wilson

Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of republican government. Only a republic could preserve liberty, Jefferson insisted, and only virtue among the people could preserve a republic. — R.B. Bernstein

I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier. — Timothy Ferriss