Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. —Butch Hancock More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of our selves. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What you need is sustained outrage. . . . There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: authority respect outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. —James Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O, let America be America again — / The land that never has been yet — / And yet must be. —Langston Hughes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Written history is, in fact, nothing of the kind; it is the fragmentary record of the often inexplicable actions of innumerable bewildered human beings, set down and interpreted according to their own limitations by other human beings, equally bewildered. —Veronica Wedgwood More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. —Terry Pratchett More about this quote Tags: history people evil good flawed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps / yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just / that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned-out star. —Marge Piercy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. —Paulo Freire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whether in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the barrios of Caracas, the ghettos of Newark, the mining towns of West Virginia, or the tarpaper villages of Gallup, Flagstaff, and Shiprock, it's the same the world over — one big wretched family sequestered in sullen desperation, pawed over by social workers, kicked around by the cops, and prayed over by the missionaries. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? —Bertolt Brecht More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Victorian Age made one or two mistakes, but they were mistakes that were really useful; that is, mistakes that were really mistaken. They thought that commerce outside a country must extend peace; it has certainly often extended war. They thought that commerce inside a country must certainly promote prosperity; it has largely promoted poverty. But for them these were experiments; for us they ought to be lessons. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Actions lie louder than words. —Carolyn Wells More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth, . . . have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: sex conversation americans business cliche Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email