Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Danica Novgorodoff

Quote by Danica Novgorodoff

“Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages." Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a "wedding," and bury the couple together... A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers—usually respectable folk who find brides for village men—account for most of the middlemen. At the bottom of the supply chain come hospital mortuaries, funeral parlors, body snatchers—and now murderers. —"China's Corpse Brides: Wet Goods and Dry Goods" The Economist, July 26, 2007”

Quote by Danica Novgorodoff

Book:The Undertaking of Lily Chen
Create image

Work

The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Danica Novgorodoff

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Danica Novgorodoff. more

You May Also Like

“In one respect, though, the Court received unfair criticism for Bush v. Gore—from those who said the justices in the majority "stole the election" for Bush. Rather, what the Court did was remove any uncertainty about the outcome. It is possible that if the Court had ruled fairly—or better yet, not taken the case at all—Gore would have won the election. A recount might have led to a Gore victory in Florida. It is also entirely possible that, had the Court acted properly and left the resolution of the election to the Florida courts, Bush would have won anyway. The recount of the 60,000 undervotes might have resulted in Bush's preserving his lead. The Florida legislature, which was controlled by Republicans, might have stepped in and awarded the state's electoral votes to Bush. And if the dispute had wound up in the House of Representatives, which has the constitutional duty to resolve controversies involving the Electoral College, Bush might have won there, too. The tragedy of the Court's performance in the election of 2000 was not that it led to Bush's victory but the inept and unsavory manner with which the justices exercised their power.”

Supreme Court20072000Bush V GorePerfectly Clear
Book:The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Create image

“In public at least, Roberts himself purports to have a different view of the Court than his conservative sponsors. "Judges are like umpires," he said at his confirmation hearing. "Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them." Elsewhere, Roberts has often said, "Judges are not politicians." None of this is true. Supreme Court justices are nothing at all like baseball umpires. It is folly to pretend that the awesome work of interpreting the Constitution, and thus defining the rights and obligations of American citizenship, is akin to performing the rote […] task of calling balls and strikes. When it comes to the core of the Court's work, determining the contemporary meaning of the Constitution, it is ideology, not craft or skill, that controls the outcome of cases.”

PoliticsHypocrisySupreme CourtChief Justice2007Epilogue
Book:The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Create image

“Random chance—a freakishly close vote in the single decisive state—gave the Supreme Court the chance to resolve the 2000 presidential election. The character of the justices themselves turned that opportunity into one of the lowest moments in the Court's history. The struggle following the election of 2000 took thirty-six days, and the Court was directly involved for twenty-one of them. Yet over this brief period, the justices displayed all of their worst traits—among them vanity, overconfidence, impatience, arrogance, and simple political partisanship. These three weeks taint an otherwise largely admirable legacy. The justices did almost everything wrong. They embarrassed themselves and the Supreme Court.”

Supreme Court20072000Bush V GoreTo The Brink
Book:The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Create image

“أفكاري تتتئسر جوه ضلوعي أفراحي تموت تحت دموعي أقلامي تتكسر ويا طموحي أوراقي تتحرق وسط شموعي كلامي يتنطق رغم سكوتي أحس إن أنا فرحان إزاي ؟! والجرح يا هوه ، يا موتي هربان وجبان ولا أنا للفرح جعان مش عارف، مش حاسس، مش قادر أكون أنا الإنسان ناسي وحوش أموالي قروش طموحاتي فشوش صهيون بيخون حياتنا تهون لو نقدر نتحرر بيها أرضي بتتاخد مدرستي معايا بتتعاهد متسبنيش .... ما تبعنيش وأنا مش قادر ليها أخون مش عارف عنها أزود مش قادر لحدودها أصون مش قادر لتلاميذها أكون حامي ،رادع، عنهم مدافع ويا إخواتي ،وسط حياتي، مع أحفادي ضد الصهيون لو يجتمعوا ، لوا يفتكروا يوم كان بينا صلاح الدين ليه نتهان ،ليه نتباع ليه نستناهم راجعين ليه ما نكونش أسود قادرين ليه ما نكونش وحوش عارفين إن القوة ويا الحكمة ولو وسط الضلمة ضد الظلم تحقق عدل تولد نور ليه ما أكونش صلاح الدين ليه ما تكونش بطل حطين ليه ما نكونش أسود قادرين ليه مانكونش عرب متحدين ، منتصرين وسط ولادنا وجوه بلادنا نصبح نمسي للراس رافعين”

2007
Author:عمر حسني
Create image

“There were two kinds of cases before the Supreme Court. There were abortion cases—and there were all the others. Abortion was (and is) the central legal issue before the Court. It defined the judicial philosophies of the justices. It dominated the nomination and confirmation process. It nearly delineated the difference between the national Democratic and Republican parties.”

AbortionSupreme CourtUs Politics20071992
Book:The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Create image

“Arendt's point is rather that throughout modern German history Jews were pawns, more or less and almost necessarily willing pawns, in the game of power politics. They were used by the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the liberals, and discarded by each of those opposed factions when their usefulness, which was financial, was either used up or no longer deemed socially desirable.”

Anti SemitismPower Politics2007Hannah ArendtJuden
Book:The Jewish Writings
Create image