Top 12 Lummis Elementary Quotes
#1. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.
Tommy Douglas
#2. Progressivism is a luxury of the one percent.
R. R. Reno
#3. In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
Richard Foster
#4. Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
Tom Stoppard
#5. Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.
Eugene V. Debs
#6. Derek gave me a look that was part sheepish, but mostly whatcha-gonna-do, amiright?
Penny Reid
#7. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.
Johnny Carson
#8. The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.
Nicholas Carr
#9. Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers ... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
Kay WalkingStick
#10. Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road.
Tim Kreider
#11. The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely
Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen
#12. The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll
