Wrencherstoolchest Quotes & Sayings

To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence. — Omali Yeshitela

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I am peaceful ... is not peace,/is getting used to harm. — Dionne Brand

You know what happens when you give a kid a calculator instead of teaching him math?"
"I think you need my help." I cross my arms. "You know what happens when you give a kid a calculator instead of teaching him math?"
He tilts his head, his eyes fetchingly bright.
"Sure he can do math that way," I continue, "but then if you take the calculator from him, suddenly he can't do any math at all, because he's
learned to rely on the calculator. Your power lets you look at people and see exactly what it takes to make them tick. Or crumble. But without
your power, you don't get people. — Carolyn Crane

Were the "pampas," perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane? — Cesar Aira

You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience. — Rowan Atkinson