Askesian Society Quotes & Sayings

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. — Richard Stallman

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health. — Marilyn Hickey

Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value. — Kenny Smith

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions
poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed
which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. — Howard Zinn

For God's sake. Don't do that."
"Don't do what?"
"Smile."
"How do you know I'm smiling?"
"I can hear it. Hell, I can feel it. It's all warm and sweet and ... " He scowled. "Bah. — Tessa Dare

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. — George Washington Carver

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first. — Charlton Heston

The theater was my mother and my father. — Ingrid Bergman

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense. — Kenneth Branagh

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Time doesn't heal anything ... only God can heal — Beth Moore

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later. — William Jennings Bryan

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope. — Chris Columbus

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you! — Pope Francis

My father couldn't warm my frozen hands. — Tahereh Mafi

In the early 1800s there arose in England a fashion for inhaling nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, after it was discovered that its use 'was attended by a highly pleasurable thrilling11'. For the next half-century it would be the drug of choice for young people. One learned body, the Askesian Society, was for a time devoted to little else. Theatres put on 'laughing gas evenings'12 where volunteers could refresh themselves with a robust inhalation and then entertain the audience with their comical staggerings. It wasn't until 1846 that anyone got around to finding a practical use for nitrous oxide, as an anaesthetic. Goodness knows how many tens of thousands of people suffered unnecessary agonies under the surgeon's knife because no-one had thought of the gas's most obvious practical application. — Bill Bryson