Tsarion Unslaved Quotes & Sayings

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others - but none in themselves nobler than others. — Alexander Von Humboldt

My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair. — Sebastian Bach

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection. — Benjamin Barber

If it is important, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse. — Andre Bramble

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. — Wendy Craig

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood. — Jackie Speier

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. — H.W. Brands

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse liberalism of the police. But just as pure oxygen is impossible to breathe, so liberalism without the police principle means the death of society. Being a shadow-caricature of liberalism, anarchism as a whole has shared its fate. Having killed liberalism, the development of class contradictions has also killed anarchism. Like every sect which founds its teaching not upon the actual development of human society, but upon the reduction to absurdity of one of its features, anarchism explodes like a soap bubble at that moment when the social contradictions arrive at the point of war or revolution. — Leon Trotsky

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. — Pepper Schwartz

The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact. — B.F. Skinner

Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime. — Stuart Wilde

He tilts his head forward, so close that our noses actually touch, and he winds my braid around his finger. I hold my breath and try to turn off the part of my brain that insists on analyzing every situation and running it through different scenarios and outcomes before taking action. Instead I press on, determined to worry about the consequences later. Sam from WHO I KISSED. — Janet Gurtler