Dave Wakeling Quotes
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
-
Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
-
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
-
Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
-
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
-
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
-
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
-
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
-
I would've been a really big silent movie star.
-
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
-
I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
-
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-
I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
-
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
-
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
-
I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
-
The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
-
EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
-
I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will
-
Always do what's best for you. It'll upset some people, but those who truly love you will always understand.
-
It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.
-
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
-
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
-
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.
-
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
