Humorous Sayings

6,846 sayings found from the Contemporary era

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

— Cornel West Approx. 2010s-2020s, cited in 2023 articles.
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Everybody's smiling while folks are getting crushed down here!

— Cornel West 2011
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I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

— Cornel West Unknown, but widely attributed.
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Idealism should be kept for what is ideal!

— Cornel West Unknown, discussing Bourne's essay 'The War and the Intellectuals'.
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It's impossible to translate the issue of the greed of Wall Street into one demand, or two demands.

— Cornel West 2011
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Calling Larry Summers 'the Ariel Sharon of higher education'.

— Cornel West 2002
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I hate his lies. and his gangster neo-fascism. I don't hate brother Biden. I hate this hypocrisy. and I hate his milk those neoliberal. policy

— Cornel West 2023
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You got what 30% of now black Brothers saying they going to vote for Gangster. Trump M hey where is that coming from.

— Cornel West 2024
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

— Cornel West May 6, 2017 (A-Z Quotes date)
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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

— Cornel West Unknown, but widely attributed.
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The political triumph of Donald Trump is a symbol and symptom—not cause or origin—of our imperial meltdown.

— Cornel West Unknown, but widely attributed (post-Trump's election).
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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under.

— Cornel West Approx. 2010s-2020s, cited in 2023 article.
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The Democratic Party is beyond redemption at this point when it comes to seriously speaking to the needs of poor and working people…

— Cornel West 2023 (June 16, 2023, for related context)
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It's like a Weimar America.

— Cornel West 2023
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I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

— Cornel West Approx. 2010s-2020s, cited in 2023 articles.
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To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status.

— Cornel West Unknown, but widely attributed.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

— Cornel West Approx. 2010s-2020s, cited in 2023 article.
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We are experiencing the sad gangsterization of America — an unbridled grasp at power, wealth and status.

— Cornel West Unknown, but widely attributed.
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Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

— Cornel West Approx. 2010s-2020s, cited in 2023 article, and 2014 for Interview Magazine.
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We live in a moment in which there is a courage deficit. People want to be popular and comfortable. They don't have the courage to tell the truth.

— Cornel West 2011
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