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

• Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Salesman
  • Qualifications
  • Oratory

• As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Light
  • Sense
  • Motion

• The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Independent

• All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Function
  • Developed
  • Labors

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

  

  Angela Davis
  • Function
  • Prisons
  • Abolish