"Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation"

-- Leon Trotsky

#Mean Quotes #States Quotes #Sole Quotes

“Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.”
“Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.”
“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”
“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
“The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?”
“They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.”
“History-writing is not a visit of condolence.”

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