O. Henry Quotes

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

Change and decay in all around I see.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip.

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.

Give and spend And God will send.

Every potter praises his own pot.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness."

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices of capitalism.