W Quotes
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“When poetry becomes synonymous with examination stress, it is unsurprising that readers abandon it once formal education ends.”
“When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.”
Source: A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the people called Methodists ... A new edition
“When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry is the one thing keeping us alive and present, so what does it mean when one of our ranks chooses to end his or her life? There's an anger beneath the grief, you know? That anger and grief, in turn, breeds other poems from those of us left behind.”
“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”
“When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.”
“When police officers refuse to give you their badge numbers, it is a strong indicator they are engaging in fraud with you.”
“When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.”
“When police violence reemerges as a sustained news theme every few years, the words "accountability" and "transparency" are sprinkled into story after story and used as a substitute for informed discussion about the terrible track record of specific policies and broader discussions about how and whether it's even possible to make armed police forces less violent and corrupt as they are currently constituted.”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.”
“When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.”
Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility
“When political analysis is done with missionary zeal and copiously flows the adrenaline, the lynch mobs are never far behind. The critic is more guilty for the consequences than the subject of his criticism or the mob.”
“When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.”
“When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.”
“When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.”
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“When political strategists argue that the Republican Party is missing a huge chance to court the black community, they are thinking of this mostly male bloc—the old guy in the barbershop, the grizzled Pop Warner coach, the retired Vietnam vet, the drunk uncle at the family reunion. He votes Democratic, not out of any love for abortion rights or progressive taxation, but because he feels—in fact, he knows—that the modern-day GOP draws on the support of people who hate him.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance”
“When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.”
Source: The Uses of Literature
“When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.”
“When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.”
“When politicians have problems sleeping, they count voters.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.”
“When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.”
“When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.”
“When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.”
“When politicians speak, it's noise, when the reformer speaks, it's the rule - divine rule!”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”
Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“When politicians talk about raising the minimum wage, they talk about the single working mother who is holding down two jobs to support her family. The reality is that the average minimum wage worker is part time and lives in a household with a family income of more than $53,000, which is about the United States median household income.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.”
“When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.”
“When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them”
“When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.”
“When politics becomes a substitute for meaning, it starts acting like a religion — and opponents become sinners instead of fellow citizens.”
“When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.”
“When politics is interesting, people go vote.”
“When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.”
“When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.”
“When polo is used as a platform to give back, then it becomes much more beautiful, I think.”
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve discovered is that fiction is written in pencil while facts are in pen.”
“When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.”
“When poor and working people in the United States become a politically viable force, relief institutions and their technologies of control shift to better facilitate cultural denial and to rationalize a brutal return to subserviency. Relief institutions are machines for undermining the collective power of poor and working-class people, and for producing in difference in everyone else.”
Source: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“When Poor, Overdress. When Rich, Underdress.”
Source: A Tale of a Fairy Tale and other stories
“When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their information? All white people who have studied history and geography know that Christ was a black man. Only the poor, brainwashed American Negro has been made to believe that Christ was white, to maneuver him into worshiping the white man. After becoming a Muslim in prison, I read almost everything I could put my hands on in the prison library. I began to think back on everything I had read and especially with the histories, I realized that nearly all of them read by the general public have been made into white histories. I found out that the history-whitening process either had left out great things that black men had done, or some of the great black men had gotten whitened.”
“When popes and pundits sell faith in the name of divine supremacy, rigidity overrules common sense, and reason is hailed as blasphemy.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“When popular people die, friends or fans only remember them when they die, but rarely during the years leading up to their death or even a week after. We enjoy the latest updates and gadgets, but rarely go back to older versions of something even if it was better. We are a very superficial race. Even animals are more humane than were are.”
“When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.”
“When Poseidon pinned her
To the temple stones, her voice
Flared like pyre-wood,
Faded like smoke.
‘As Perseus bore down upon her
She bestrode the pitted ground;
The snakes that writhed from her head
Cried mercy of the clouds.
‘From her neck, Pegasus sprang –
The white horse spread his wings,
And bore her name through Greece
Swooping to Cretan shores.
‘Her blood birthed the corals
Of the Red Sea – sharp as tongues.
O Hera, grant Medusa
Her legacy: woman, monster, might!”
Source: Orphia and Eurydicius
“When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.”