Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Brady

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

David Korten

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

David Crane

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

David Crane

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

David Crane

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Patricia Ireland

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Kathy Acker

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

Carry Nation

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

George Jackson

Growing numbers of blacks are openly passed over when paroles are considered. They have become aware that their only hope lies in resistance.

Michael Scott

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

Benjamin Tucker

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

Benjamin Tucker

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.

George Ripley

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Kathy Acker

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

Kathy Acker

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Kathy Acker

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Kathy Acker

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Kathy Acker

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Kathy Acker

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Kathy Acker

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Kathy Acker

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kate Millett

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

Kate Millett

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Kate Millett

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Patricia Ireland

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.