Sumed Quotes & Sayings

I'm so bitter right now that if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse showed up I'd give them directions. — Whiskey Britches

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible. — Thomas Jefferson

The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth. — Deyth Banger

The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us — Dan Simmons

You laughed either to keep yourself sane or because you'd given up on staying that way. Either way, you laughed. — Hugh Howey

It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distances, so there was also no closeness. — David Pratt

The first commendment of hte post 1970s meritocracy can be sumed up as follows: "Thou shall provide equality of opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, or sexual oritentation, but worry not about equality of outcomes." But what we've seen time and time again is that the two aren't so neatly separated. If you don't concern yourself at all with equality fo outcomes, you will, over time, produce a system with horrendous inequality of opportunity. This is the paradox of meritocracy: It can only truly come to flower in a society that starts out with a relatively high degree of equality. So if you want meritocracy, work for equality. Because it is only in a society which values equality of actual outcomes, one that promotes the commonweal and social solidarity, that equal opportunity and earned mobility can flourish. — Christopher L. Hayes

It's upsetting to be a man in our society. — David Mamet