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Category Archive: 1929

Adrienne Rich Quote: “They can rule the world while…”

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

December 3, 2019 1929, Adrienne Rich, American, May 16, Quotes by Poets

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “The first question which the priest…”

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

November 17, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “History will have to record that…”

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

November 17, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “That old law about ‘an eye…”

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

November 7, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “To other countries, I may go…”

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

November 6, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Peter L. Berger Quote: “So I think one can say…”

So I think one can say on empirical grounds – not because of some philosophical principle – that you can’t have democracy unless you have a market economy.

November 5, 2019 1929, Austrian, March 17, Peter L. Berger, Quotes by Sociologists

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “It may be true that the…”

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

November 2, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “Shallow understanding from people of good…”

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

October 28, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Jean Baudrillard Quote: “Deep down, no one really believes…”

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

October 25, 2019 1929, French, Jean Baudrillard, July 29, Quotes by Sociologists

Jean Baudrillard Quote: “There is nothing more mysterious than…”

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

October 23, 2019 1929, French, Jean Baudrillard, July 29, Quotes by Sociologists

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