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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2013 5:48:27 GMT 10
You look like my friend Debbie. That's really weird … do you get that a lot? — It's sad, though, 'cause you know, we're not really friends anymore. But, uh, it's not your fault. Seriously, it was 'cause she's, um … not "born again Christian" … oh! — "pathological liar"
But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough
So I live in this apartment that's disgusting — it's really dirty. And the kitchen floor is, like, sticky. And I had to do something about it. So finally I went out and bought some, uh, slippers
Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the blacks
If my boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that mommy is one of God's chosen people, and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!
I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love. Jesus' words have become so perverted over time — it's been like a game of telephone. If he existed, Jesus would fuckin' kill himself
Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, “Hey, now there’s something I could rape and kill without any consequences,” then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of troubleSarah SilvermanAmerican actress, stand-up comedian, writer and musician (Born this day 1970) People are always introducing me as "Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedian." I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2013 5:49:09 GMT 10
Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him
A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud
The bombs I dropped on Germany between 1940 and 1944 maybe killed a Rilke or a Goethe or a Hölderin in his cradle. And yes, of course, if it had to be done over, I would do it again. Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are ever innocent
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberatedRomain GaryFrench novelist, film director, WWII pilot and diplomat (Died this day 1980) There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2013 5:50:14 GMT 10
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner visionRobertson DaviesCanadian novelist, essayist and dramatist (Died this day 1995) What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2013 5:52:23 GMT 10
I will clarify a distinction that I consider fundamental to political ecology. I shall distinguish the environment as commons from the environment as resource
The customary law which humanized the environment by establishing the commons was usually unwritten. It was unwritten law not only because people did not care to write it down, but because what it protected was a reality much too complex to fit into paragraphs. The law of the commons regulates the right of way, the right to fish and to hunt, to graze, and to collect wood or medicinal plants in the forest
A transformation of the environment from a commons to a productive resource constitutes the most fundamental form of environmental degradation
As enclosure by the lords increased national productivity by denying the indivi- dual peasant to keep a few sheep, so the encroachment of the loudspeaker has destroyed that silence which so far had given each man and woman his or her proper and equal voice. Unless you have access to a loudspeaker, you now are silenced
Friendship in the Greek tradition, in the Roman tradition, in the old tradition, was always viewed as the highest point which virtue can reach. Virtue, meaning here, "the habitual facility of doing the good thing," which is fostered by what the Greeks called politaea, political life, community life
I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality.
This breaking of the limitations of hospitality to a small in-group, of offering it to the broadest possible in-group, and saying, you determine who your guest is, might be taken as the key message of ChristianityIvan IllichAustrian-born Christian anarchist, author, polymath, and polemicist (Died this day 2002) Jesus was an anarchist saviour. That's what the Gospels tell us
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:25:22 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health
If you keep your feathers well-oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name ... As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy lifeEllen Swallow RichardsAmerican industrial and environmental chemist (Born this day 1842) We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:27:21 GMT 10
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face itJoseph ConradPolish novelist ( Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) (Born this day 1857) A man's most open actions have a secret side to them
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:28:16 GMT 10
1 of 2:All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer
Every man has a sane spot somewhere
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequencesBro. Robert Louis StevensonScottish-Samoan writer ( Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, ( Treasure Island) (Died this day 1894) Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:29:01 GMT 10
2 of 2:That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversionBro. Robert Louis Stevenson(Died this day 1894) Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:29:42 GMT 10
How can one know anything at all about people?
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time
I am no longer afraid to say anythingAnna FreudAustrian-English psychoanalyst (daughter of Sigmund Freud) (Born this day 1895) Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:30:39 GMT 10
The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made
Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves
Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept com- promise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality — It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all
While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence — you cannot begin to build until you have destroyed. You don't know love until you have hatedFrancisco Sionil JoséFilipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature (Born this day 1924) Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that what we are experiencing now will pass and in the end we will all be brothers, not just blood brothers, as we are, but brothers in spirit. Neither you nor I can change the world or human nature and we can only aim at changing attitudes - and perhaps teach those who have so much to give a portion of their blessings to those who have less
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