Burgus System Quotes & Sayings

Don't be a fool, Katniss. Think for yourself. — Suzanne Collins

What is most difficult to face, but increasingly obvious as gay visibility provokes containment, but not equality, is that homophobes enjoy feeling superior, rely on the pleasure of enacting their superiority, and go out of their way to resist change that would deflate their sense of supremacy. Homophobia makes heterosexuals feel better about themselves. It's not fear - it's fun.
We know from photographs of happy picnicking white families laughing underneath the swinging body of a tortured, lynched black man, or giggly white U.S. soldiers leading naked Iraqis on leashes, or terrified humiliated Jews surrounded by laughing smiling Nazis that human beings love being cruel. They enjoy the power, and go far beyond social expectation to carry out the kind of cruelty that makes them feel bigger. In short, homophobia is not a phobia at all. It is a pleasure system. — Sarah Schulman

Was marriage invented to cage love? — Nilesh Rathod

We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that? — Justin Vernon

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance. — Samuel Richardson

If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives. — Betsy Landin