Disinherited Quotes

#1. In the presence of an overwhelming sincerity on the part of the disinherited, the dominant themselves are caught with no defense [ ... ] They are thrown back upon themselves for their rating.

Howard Thurman

#2. Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

John Lyly

#3. Shut your trap, boy. You are hereby disinherited. Davies! I want a new will.

Julie Klassen

#4. Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.

Adam Gopnik

#5. Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping the disinherited within bounds in their quarrels or in their rebellions against those who hold the social wealth

Ricardo Flores Magon

#6. We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

Indira Gandhi

#7. Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson

#9. People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

Vaclav Havel

#10. Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

John Howard

#11. Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Jane Addams

#12. Every time she allowed her gaze to wander to the group at the piano, she found Lord Wentworth's eyes on her. In the end it was easier to study the patterns in the ornate rug on which her chair sat. She was glad when the evening ended.

Susan Leona Fisher

#13. My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance ... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

Samuel Beckett

#14. Now no discourse, except it be of Love;
Now I can break my fast, dine, sup and sleep
Upon the very naked name of Love.

William Shakespeare

#15. I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

Cristina Kirchner

#16. No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

Arthur C. Clarke

#17. Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

John Piper

#18. These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it ... it's just dumb.

Moby

#19. And to this day I love endless landscapes, big horizons, sunflowers, and narcissi.

Gisela Hausmann

#20. But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

Tom Jenkinson

#21. The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the "timely execution.

Pearl Zhu

#22. There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

Tim Finn