"Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!"

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Past Quotes #Strange Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a societyâ€™s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.”
“The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.”
“Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.”

Source : "Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 4, ch. 1, 1159.
“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”
“Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.”
“You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?”
“If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.”
“Blood is one thing, but thatâ€™s not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. Theyâ€™re the ones whoâ€™ll keep you standing.”

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