Irene Fernandez Quotes

#1. Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Roger Rosenblatt

#2. One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

Toni Morrison

#3. Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water]

Guy De Maupassant

#4. There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

Margo Lanagan

#5. Give any chemically rich system enough time, with enough free energy, and something unusual, but ultimately predictable, will eventually occur.

John Zande

#6. There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Pablo Picasso

#7. When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

Irene Fernandez

#8. He saw the world through gray water.

John Steinbeck

#9. We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority

Irene Fernandez

#10. They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...

Anna Godbersen

#11. We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Charles De Montesquieu

#12. Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

William Wilberforce

#13. Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Politicians, you know Harry Reid hates you. We get it. But when somebody from "The New York Times" or "The Washington Post" is saying this stuff, that's different, that's offensive, that's wrong.

Greg Gutfeld

#15. And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed - men, women, and children - who cry out, Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#16. We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.

Ayn Rand