When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Because I've never made this kind of movie before, so I've never even been to Comic-Con. And Hugh and Evangeline keep telling me, 'Oh,…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it…

— George Pelecanos

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's…

— Jane Fonda

Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established…

— George Carlin

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race…

— Barack Obama

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to…

— Kamasi Washington

Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual…

— Andrea Dworkin

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that…

— Edward Gibbon

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die…

— Al Pacino

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

— Jane Fonda

Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the…

— Matthew Continetti

I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me--…

— James Whitcomb Riley

“A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

— Bob Newhart