Esquerita Quotes

#1. That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar ... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?

Kamila Shamsie

#2. The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

Herbert Croly

#3. It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.

Claire Cross

#4. I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#5. [ ... ] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Jessamyn West

#7. A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.

Liane Moriarty