“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
A successful woman is one who can build a solid foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at her.
(Pablo Neruda)
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
— Miranda July
From It Chooses You
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
~François VI de la Rochefoucault
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
@tsarstepan,
"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
James Joyce
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
-- Jalaluddin Rumi (speaking of prayer ie worship, I guess)
@Lustig Andrei,
Tell that to the people in the sights and fire of a rogue sniper on perching on the roof of a random university tower or public building.
They (lawyers) have a disturbing habit of getting elected to political offices, or appointed to government commissions, then writing laws you have to hire a lawyer to understand.
James Crumley
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
— Sigmund Freud
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.”
― Kristan Higgins
“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”
― Abbie Hoffman
“All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens
