Blasfemias Contra Quotes & Sayings

Government exists to protect the product of men's labor, their property, and therewith life and liberty. The notion that man possesses inalienable natural rights, that they belong to him as an individual prior, both in time and in sanctity, to any civil society, and that civil societies exist for and acquire their legitimacy from ensuring those rights, is an invention of modern philosophy. Rights, like the other terms discussed in this chapter, are new in modernity, not a part of the common-sense language of politics or of classical political philosophy." from "Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, Andrew Ferguson — Allan Bloom

Walking together, matching our footfalls, we exit the lobby like two television district attorneys gunning for justice. — Sally Thorne

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows. — Louise Hay

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. — Richard Russo

Don't love just for beauty, love to make her beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. — Lewis Thomas

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. — Michael Bassey

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. — Rudyard Kipling

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines. — Dev Patel

Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door. — Boy George

Planet Ay The Apes hus insinuated hissel intae the company. The thought ay that cunt shaggin wee Maria Anderson is not aesthetically appealing. The thought ay that cunt shaggin anybody isnae aesthetically appealing. If he tries tae talk tae ma Ma, ah'll gless the fucker's primate pus. — Irvine Welsh

Doctors ... from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.( ... Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs ... suggested ... only 13% were highly preferred (and) ... in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced ... About 12% of the innovations increased complications ... — Jeffrey Bland

Because he is looking at me the way a man dying of thirst might look at a cask of water, as if his very life depends on bringing me to his lips. — Sherry D. Ficklin