"When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality."

-- Michael N. Castle

#Reality Quotes #Choices Quotes #Social Quotes

“Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan
“You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.”
“Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.”
“The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and now increasingly distributing renewable energies, they're measuring politics in terms of a struggle between centralized, hierarchical, top-down and closed and proprietary, versus distributed, open, collaborative, transparent. This shift, from hierarchical to lateral power, is going to change the way we live, the way we educate our children, and the way we govern the world.”
“The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.”
“Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.”

You may also like:

Arlen Specter
Former United States Senator
Chris Coons
United States Senator
Jack Markell
Governor of Delaware
Robert Foster Bennett
Former United States Senator
Ruth Ann Minner
Former Governor of Delaware
Sharron Angle
Politician
Thomas Carper
United States Senator
Beau Biden
Former Delaware Attorney General
Christine O'Donnell
Political figure