Uncle Toms Cabin Racism Quotes & Sayings

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. — Golda Meir

Iranian high school students learned how to draw microscopes and how to write letter-perfect descriptions of the way in which microscopes worked, but the microscopes in Iranian schools usually remained locked up as property too valuable to be put in students' hands. The — Roy Mottahedeh

You are all desperate for purpose, even though you don't have one. You're animals, and animals don't have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent - sentient, maybe - animals out there who don't have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But the animals like you - the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore, you all share a need for purpose. For reason . That thinking worked well for you, once. — Becky Chambers

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.

And we need to change that! — Amit Chatterjee

Such emotions, sudden bursts of sexual jealousy that pursue us through life, sometimes without the smallest justification that memory or affection might provide, are like wounds, unknown and quiescent, that suddenly break out to give pain, or at least irritation, at a later season of the year, or in an unfamiliar climate. — Anthony Powell

And then it came to him: a seal cylinder. When rolled upon a tablet of soft clay, the carved cylinder left an imprint that formed a picture. Two figures might appear at opposite ends of the tablet, though they stood side by side on the surface of the cylinder. All the world was as such a cylinder. Men imagined heaven and earth as being at the ends of a tablet, with sky and stars stretched between; yet the world was wrapped around in some fantastic way so that heaven and earth touched. It — Ted Chiang

I like part-time jobs in restaurants. — Tao Lin

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky. — William Carlos Williams

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe. — Marion Blakey

I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity. — M.F. Moonzajer

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible. — Greg Gutfeld

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings. — Plato