Homonationalism Jasbir Quotes & Sayings

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen. Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Some women cry easily. The tears fall as gently as fragrant raindrops in a sun-shower, and leave the face clear and clean and almost radiant. Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it. — Gregory David Roberts

That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point. — James Sallis

Gas consumption is growing everywhere. — Vagit Alekperov

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague. — Samuel Pepys

Keeping my voice level, I shook my head. Mustn't enrage the antisocial monster standing five feet away. — J.C. Daniels

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously. — John Travolta

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St. Aubyn

Wilderness is a necessity ... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls ... — John Muir

But the thing is, slavery's not a new invention. And solitary confinement - did you know, in America we've got more than twenty-five thousand prisoners in isolation cells? — Emma Donoghue

Adolf introduces Fascism to Germany, spreads war throughout Europe, murders millions in concentration camps - but he's a strict vegetarian and loves his dog. Tossing in a touching scene with his German shepherd Blondie and a dish of lentils won't make Hitler's character 'balanced.' Hitler's character isn't balanced. — Howard Mittelmark