Bodies Are Not Commodities Quotes & Sayings

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up. — Sara Bareilles

Real success doesn't care how you get there. — Ernie J Zelinski

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls! — Graham Kerr

If they burn your school, burn their children, if they destroy your buildings destroy their people if they tear down your homes tear down their families. — M.F. Moonzajer

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience. — Howard G. Hendricks

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary. — Eli Siegel

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance. — Amy Dickinson

Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones or watching MTV. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs; he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproduction he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate? A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms; whose feelings are made articulate in hymns to the joys of onanism or the killing of parents; whose ambition is to win fame and wealth in imitating the drag-queen who makes the music. In short, life is made into a nonstop, commercially prepackaged masturbational fantasy. — Allan Bloom

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?' — William McDonough

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web. — Philip Greenspun

I suspect there are lots of women who want to become prostitutes. Some see themselves as valued commodities and figure they ought to sell while the price is high. Others feel that sex has no intrinsic meaning in and of itself but allows individuals to feel the reality of their own bodies. A few women despise their existence and the insignificance of their meager lives and want to affirm themselves by controlling sex much as a man would. Then there are those who are actuated by violent, self-destructive behavior. And finally we have those want to offer comfort. I suppose there are any number of women who find the meaning of their existence in similar ways. — Natsuo Kirino

any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people - doing all the right things - still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something - or someone - to blame. — H. Gilbert Welch

Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark) — Kresley Cole