Anti Oppressive Practice Quotes

#1. Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

Stephen Covey

#2. Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

James M. Cain

#3. Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Sebastian Faulks

#4. With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

Charles Dickens

#5. We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Thomas E. Mann

#6. She is one of those people who are completely calm and competent, and as a result no one ever messes with her.

Jojo Moyes

#7. When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going.

Dodinsky

#8. Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

Jason Lee

#9. Spirit of excellence is a rare gift that goes extra mile tirelessly.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.

Courtney Summers

#11. Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

Bill Ayers

#12. A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.

Noam Chomsky