Farringdon Post Quotes & Sayings

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself? — Saint Augustine

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? — Gloria Steinem

You ask me to make a promise? I am in a cage. No promise I make is trustworthy because I would do anything to be rid of this cage. Promise me that you will not treat me like an animal or a spectacle, and I will see what I can do. — J.M. McDermott

I am dealing with people with both sides. I see people who are liberating themselves but they want to forget the world. And I see people who want to liberate the world but they forget themselves. Neither is the way I want to go. — Tariq Ramadan

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings. — Emile Durkheim

Listen, then," says the angry Sophist (Thrasymachus), "I proclaim that might is right, and justice is the interest of the stronger. The different forms of government make laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their respective interests; and these laws, so made by them to serve their interests, they deliver to their subjects as "justice," and punish as "unjust" anyone who transgresses them. — Plato

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish. — Gretchen Rubin

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be. — Hunter S. Thompson

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general. — Paul Bettany

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about. — Natalia Vodianova

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time. — Adrienne Rich

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers — Peter Singer

I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone. — Mick Jagger