Vecchie Maiale Quotes & Sayings

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship. — Fidel Castro

Life, it seems, delivers the best punch lines only after we've forgotten we were part of a joke. — David Arnold

The relation between the white and black races in Africa in many ways resembles the relation between the two sexes.
If the one of the two sexes were told that they did not play any greater part in the life of the other sex than this other sex plays within their own existence, they would be shocked and hurt.
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If they (white people) had been told that they played no more important part in the lives of the Natives than the Natives played in their own lives, they would have been highly indignant and ill at ease.
If you had told the Natives that they played no greater part in the life of the white people than the white people played in their lives, they would never have believed you, but would have laughed at you. Probably in Natives circles, stories are passing about, and being repeated, which prove the all-absorbing interest of the white people in the Kikuyu or Kavirondo, and their complete dependence upon them. — Karen Blixen

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL. — Sean Sullivan

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens. — Helen Van Wyk

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. — Ira Glass