William Henry Chamberlin Quotes
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.
William Henry Chamberlin
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
Kaskade
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
Bayard Rustin
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
Gary Sheffield
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
Faye Marsay
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson
Cause when you're fifteenAnd somebody tells you they love you,you're gonna believe them.And when you're fifteen,Feeling like there's nothing to figure out,Well count to ten, take it in.This is life before you knowWho you're gonna be,You're fifteen.
Taylor Swift
He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
Lawrence Durrell
Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
Antonio Porchia
