Bermans Quotes & Sayings

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you. — David Cronenberg

[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings
the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [ ... ] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically. — Amitav Ghosh

Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings. — Ludwig Von Mises

Justice is getting what you deserve.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve.
And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift — Cathleen Falsani

It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word. — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. — Tarja Halonen

"The best of men are just men at best. — Alistair Begg

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. — Julia Cameron

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female ... In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness — Laura Mulvey

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no. — E. J. W. Barber

Intelligence is nothing without delight. — Paul Claudel

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. — Milos Forman

I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen. — Tania Raymonde