Alongsideabsurd Quotes & Sayings

The sexual license prevalent among {the} Sixties generation was deplorable, but no more so than predatory Capitalism, with cruel slums alongsideabsurd affluence: affluence which paid for...depictions of the Holy Family as a form of expiation. Love was the basis for what he believed. Promiscuity certainly violated that polestar, yet caring for others, even in "fooling around"--which was not to justify it--topped dog-eat-dog Capitalism. — Edward Hoagland

Rationality was returning to deal with the mess that emotions had created. — Graeme Simsion

At around four o'clock most Saturday afternoons, just when I make us all a cup of tea, I have a little glow on, maybe because this is after all my work, and it's going OK, maybe because I'm proud of us, of the way that, though our talents are small and peculiar, we use them to their best advantage. — Nick Hornby

Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now. — Jonathan Auxier

Language is the tool of the tools — Lev S. Vygotsky

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. — Idries Shah

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this. — Hansjorg Wyss