#on

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#dead #devoted #labor #labor day #living

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ↗

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#everything #finds #live #looks #men

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#god #him #insult #less #must

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#barbarism #bring #civilization #die #every

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#going #hate #job #just #love

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#hears #more #museum #nonsense #perhaps

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' ↗

— Michel Gondry

#am #consume #consumer #contradiction #could

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses? ↗

— Michel Gondry

#better #competition #i #idea #kept

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#cynical #humour #i #irony #makes