Famous Quotes

"Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street."

Cornel West on Relationship

More quotes about Relationship

• "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete."

  Keith Sweat on Relationship

• "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Relationship

• "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

  Euripides on Relationship

• "Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

  Denis Waitley on Relationship

• "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

  Epicurus on Relationship

More quotes by Cornel West

• "A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all."

• "My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination."

• "The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find."

• "King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens."

• "We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property."