Ciceros Leechburg Menu Quotes & Sayings

collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls "divertissement," an untranslatable word which roughly means "distraction" or "diversion": It is the escape from life's problems, and also its invitations, into activities that in ultimate terms are meaningless. It is a constant turning to superficial actions as a way to avoid facing the true realities of human life. The soap operas and situation comedies easily become an addiction. They take the place of the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome. There was plenty wrong with Roman society and the Roman emperors offered the diversion of food and entertainment to make people forget the banality and meaninglessness of the lives they lived. Our society does much the same and has ever so much more in the way of sophisticated tools for doing so. — William H. Shannon

It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men. — Lidia Yuknavitch

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. — Sigmar Gabriel

What separates us is that we expect to be great. — Deion Sanders

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap. — Miroslav Vitous

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength. — Kevin Keegan

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. — Bill Cosby

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people. — Moby

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation. — Rick Scott

The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought. — Carroll Smith