Fantasmes Entre Quotes & Sayings

When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it's not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It's not about the burqa. It's about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems. — Arundhati Roy

When will my country die for me? — Grace Slick

I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol. — Dom Irrera

My last name should be "Why," because it is my destiny to question everything, including how to change my last name to one of the shortest questions and the question of all questions. — Jarod Kintz

Ideas are the root of creation. — Ernest Dimnet

The publication of Doctor Zhivago in the West in 1957 and the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Boris Pasternak the following year triggered one of the greatest cultural storms of the Cold War. Because of the enduring appeal of the novel, and the 1965 David Lean film based on it, Doctor Zhivago remains a landmark piece of fiction. Yet few readers know the trials of its birth and how the novel galvanized a world largely divided between the competing ideologies of two superpowers. — Peter Finn

but that's what growing up is all about- learning nothing is sacred in this world — Chris Colfer

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. — Tony Kushner

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another. — Timothy Keller

Don't panic and carry a towel — Douglas Adams

Oh,Angus, where's the beef? — Kerrelyn Sparks

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day. — Steven Horsford

By delivering a wide array of programming to YouTube, the NBA will be able to connect with its existing worldwide fan base and reach a vast new audience that is passionate about basketball. — Chad Hurley

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion. — Kurt Cobain