Yerasimos Quotes & Sayings

The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn. — Rebecca Solnit

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose. — Robert Charles Wilson

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. — Dalai Lama

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself. — Beverly Daniel Tatum

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed. — Douglas Huebler

People who try to commit suicide
don't attempt to save them! ... China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people. — Mao Zedong

All I know with utter certainty is this. Dan tamed me. We need each other.
He has become unique to me in all the world. — Megan Hart

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. — Cecil Day-Lewis