Angela Davis Quotes

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Angela Davis

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• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • World
  • Adventure

• Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

  

  Peter Finch
  • Success
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Love
  • Fact
  • Asking

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Family
  • Law
  • Government

• Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Free

• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Guy

• Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Men
  • Sound Sense

• Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Opinions

• To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Philosopher
  • Live Alone

• Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

  

  William Powell
  • Fool
  • Dumb
  • Democrat

• What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • People
  • Language
  • Communication

• Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Values
  • Virtue

• When I watch the show Westworld, it leaves me looking at the world around me in a new way. It really stays with you. And it's one of those things that you have to figure out. You're going to get little clues along the way, and every time you think you know what's up, we're going to flip it around. It's going to take you for a really awesome, crazy ride, but it's a really, really revolutionary character for women. There's a lot of really fun stuff to look forward to.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Women
  • Character
  • Think

• Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Real
  • Facts
  • Face

• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Function
  • Prisons
  • Abolish