#genius

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#any #common #condition #dynamics #each

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water. ↗

— Rich Galen

#genius #political #smell #sniff #water

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#better #beware #clearly #genius #inspiration

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#genius #person #talent #who

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#ample #constitution #enduring #fertility #genius

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#genius #like #look #make #media

Since when was genius found respectable? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#genius #respectable #since

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#genius #must #talent