Gobat Full Quotes & Sayings

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties. — Philip Zimbardo

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. — Cedric Hardwicke

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis. — Larry Niven

This is the thing, I think often, that never occurs to you when you consider what it would be like to lose someone you love. That you would miss not just the flowers and kisses, but the totality of the experience. You miss the failures and little evils with as much desperation as you miss being held in the middle of the night. I wish he were here now, and I was kissing him. I wish he were here now, and I was betraying him. Either would be fine, so fine, as long as he was here. — Cody McFadyen

Some word - from before this translation — Ted Hughes

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. — Seneca The Younger

You're not very good at this, are you?'
'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do. — James Sallis

Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om. — Ashwin Sanghi

We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The islands are very quiet. One sees them lying about, clothed in their dark garments of leaves, in a great hush of silver and azure, where the sea without murmurs meets the sky in a ring of magic stillness. A sort of smiling somnolence broods over them; the very voices of their people are soft and subdued, as if afraid to break some protecting spell.
Perhaps this was the very spell which had enchanted Heyst in the early days. — Joseph Conrad

Violent ideologies speak their own language; core concepts are translated to maintain the system while appearing to support the people. Under carnism, for instance, democracy has become defined as having the freedom to choose among products that sicken our bodies and pollute our planet, rather than the freedom to eat our food and breathe our air without the risk of being poisoned. But violent ideologies are inherently undemocratic, as they rely on deception, secrecy, concentrated power, and coercion
all practices that are incompatible with a free society. While the larger system, or nation, may appear democratic, the violent system within it is not. This is one reason we don't recognize violent ideologies that exist within seemingly democratic systems; we simply aren't thinking to look for them. — Melanie Joy