Azota Quotes & Sayings

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative. — Dan Barker

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! — Slavoj Zizek

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot. — Arnold Bennett

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong — Donald Barnhouse

The past is useful only insofar as it justifies the present; the present is not of value in itself or autonomous, but subject to the image of the past. — Eli Lederhendler

By living our lives, we nurture death. — Haruki Murakami

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals. — Mark Twain