Burghers Communist Quotes

#1. As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.

Travis Bradberry

#3. an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.

Honore De Balzac

#4. I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

George MacDonald

#5. Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.

Stephanie Green

#6. My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#7. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.

Samuel Johnson

#8. I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

Ang Lee

#9. The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.

Daniel M. Gilbert