Clermonts Ultimate Quotes & Sayings

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story — Greg Giraldo

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. — John Cleese

In short, conquest is in no sense a necessary sign of higher human development, though conquistadors have always thought otherwise. Any valid concept of organic development must use the primary terms of ecology-cooperation and symbiosis-as well as struggle and conflict, for even predators are part of a food chain, and do not 'conquer' their prey except to eat them. The idea of total conquest is an extrapolation from the existing power system: it indicates, not a desirable end, accomodation, but a pathological aberration, re-enforced by such rewards as this system bestows. As for the climactic notion that "the universe will be man's at last"-what is this but a paranoid fantasy, comparable to the claims of an asylum inmate who imagines that he is Emperor of the World? Such a claim is countless light-years away from reality. — Lewis Mumford

Use all the ugliness you're feeling to make something beautiful — Laura Goode