Ghede Quotes

#1. Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Evan Esar

#2. Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?

Peter Abrahams

#3. In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

Ishmael Reed

#4. Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

Naveen Jain

#5. THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.

Mary Oliver

#7. God made saints out of far worse people than you.

Mark Hart

#8. For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just
following our darkest hours.

Neal A. Maxwell