#Stupid Quotes #Dumb Quotes
“Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?”
“To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.”
Source : Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”
“In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.”
Source : "Peter Abelard's Ethics". Book by Peter Abelard, 1971.
“I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.”
“Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.”
“Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.”
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
“If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.”
Apuleius Prose writer
Catullus Poet
Henryk Sienkiewicz Journalist
Juvenal Poet
Lucan Poet
Martial Poet
Ovid Poet
Seneca the Younger Philosopher
Tacitus Historian
