Culpas Quotes & Sayings

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality. — Laozi

Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of the tongue or misuse of sacred cutlery, and bang, he's on the grill. Do you ever think about how self-aggrandising that stuff is? Oh, all those stories pretending to be mea culpas about cultural insensitivity, oops, we said the wrong thing, but they're really all about how ridiculous natives overreact. Avice, we must have made thousands of fuckups like that over the years. Think about it. Just like our visitors did when they first met our lot, on Terre. And for the most part we didn't lose our shit, did we? — China Mieville

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. — P. J. O'Rourke

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. — George Santayana

If the Lord calls us to be a bridge, we have to learn to bear in his strength the weight. And it hurts. And it's good. And the Lord equips. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. — Christopher Heyerdahl