"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."

-- e. e. cummings

#Men Quotes #Political Quotes #Arses Quotes

“What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.”

Source : "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.
“The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.”
“There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.”

Source : "'Burn Notice's' spy guy". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. July 1, 2008.
“we are running out of time for dealing with this”
“To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media
“Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage
“Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.”
“There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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