Vltava Rozhlas Quotes & Sayings

The displacement of class politics by identity politics has been very confusing to older Marxists, who for many years clung to the old industrial working class as their preferred category of the underprivileged. They tried to explain this shift in terms of what Ernest Gellner labeled the "Wrong Address Theory": "Just as extreme Shi'ite Muslims hold that Archangel Gabriel made a mistake, delivering the Message to Mohamed when it was intended for Ali, so Marxists basically like to think that the spirit of history or human consciousness made a terrible boob. The awakening message was intended for classes, but by some terrible postal error was delivered to nations. — Francis Fukuyama

Raise Your Hand [10w]
Raise your hand to answer questions,
not to hit children. — Beryl Dov

By the time the sun burns itself out or global warming does us in, or something else happens in-between, I had to tell this story from the avenue of the less-known and the lesser seen. — Mahesh Ubhayakar

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter! — Israelmore Ayivor

The best revenge is not to do as they do. — Marcus Aurelius

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. — Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock. — Chuck Palahniuk

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career. — Barack Obama