Sundararajan Venkatesh Quotes & Sayings

History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities. — Harlan F. Stone

Life as Art
If you want to turn your life into a masterpiece
you must humble yourself to sell
a couple of shitty postcards
along the way. — Beryl Dov

We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists. — Richie Havens

So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him. — Joanne Harris

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own? — Peter Mullan

Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us ... — Stefan Zweig

I just needed some time to think and figure out shit in my head. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was too late. I've already given you my damn heart and I don't want it back." He leans down and smiles against my lips. "I want you," he whispers. — Victoria Ashley

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious. — Stephen Colbert

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten. — Diane Setterfield

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides. — Baron De Montesquieu

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther

It's a favorite myth in our culture that hardship makes you a better person, that is is merely the grindstone on which your essence is refined and polished. But the truth is that scarcity, depression, thwarted ambition, and suffering most often leave the person a little twisted. That is the territory where mean drunks and tyrannical bastards come from. — Jessa Crispin

You're not a conventional man." "No!" He hooted. "I never claimed to be! Except before certain selection committees of course. A conventional man! Ah, ha ha ha ha ha! - the conventional men get Maya. That is their reward." And he laughed like a wild man. — Kim Stanley Robinson