Peculiar Institution Quotes

#1. But in the course of thirty years a great change took place, and the North refused to perpetuate what had become the "peculiar institution" of the South, especially as it gave the South a species of aristocratic preponderance.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. Bankruptcy - a peculiar institution that enabled an individual, who had failed in competitive industry, to forego paying his debts. The effect was to ameliorate the too savage conditions of the fang-and-claw social struggle.

Jack London

#3. Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals - and is intended to conceal - the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the peculiar institution.

Dinesh D'Souza

#4. Lobby - a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.

Jack London

#5. People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Alexei Sayle

#6. I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#7. One must gradually learn the truth about the boundaries between what is great and what is small.

Tarjei Vesaas

#8. In Sussex, if it's not the Devil that makes an appearance, then it's likely to be a dragon.

Michael O'Leary

#9. Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.

Rawi Hage

#10. It's still pretty surreal. I wake up every day and just pinch myself and kind of think about how far I've come and all the stuff I have done.

Victor Cruz

#11. I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

David Talbot

#12. Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Dejan Stojanovic

#14. I decided that it was like the difference between the beautiful old Godsend graves and the new ones open to receive coffins (which I never can bear to look at); that time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Dodie Smith

#15. Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

W. H. Auden

#16. If you are willing to expose your heart ... being publicly private, you just may do something ...

Bruce Dern

#17. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Rumi

#18. A good Policeman/woman looks for crimes. A bad policeman/woman looks for opportunity.

Richard Diaz