Benishek Obituary Quotes & Sayings

So far has Western society departed from the ancient taboos against murder, theft, and rape that we are now faced with juvenile delinquents who have no inner check against wantonly assaulting other human beings at random 'for kicks' while we have adult delinquents capable of deliberately planning the extermination of tens of millions of human beings, in carrying out, also doubtless for kicks, a mathematical theory of games. Today our civilization is relapsing into a state far more primitive, far more irrational, than any taboo-ridden society now known-for lack of any effective taboos. If Western man could establish an inviolate taboo against random extermination, our society would enjoy a far more effective safeguard against both private violence and still impending collective nuclear horrors than the United Nations or the fallible mechanisms of Fail-Safe. — Lewis Mumford

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 — Gurdieff

You are my favourite part of me. — Jenim Dibie

I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends. — Joe Wurzelbacher

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument. — Robert Pinsky

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles. — Christopher Owens

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us. — Marcel Proust

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it. — Jason Mewes

It's maddening; he's like an obnoxious seven-year-old that someone has installed at the helm of a vast international conspiracy. — Ben H. Winters

If you want those around you to accept God and His many gifts, first accept His love for you. Then help build an environment of love wherever you go. — David Mangan

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen. — Ellen Wong