"The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information."

-- Edward Abbey

#Horse Quotes #Real Quotes #Warrior Quotes

“"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."”

Source : Oliver B. Greene (2015). “The Revelation: Verse by Verse Study”, p.25, Ravenio Books
“Progressive rock was happening.”
“You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2014). “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”, p.319, Vintage
“You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.”

Source : Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.
“Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.”
“All the major networks declared Barack Obama the winner at 11 last night, except for MSNBC, which declared Obama the winner six months ago.”
“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”
“Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.”

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