Loquet Fermeture Quotes & Sayings

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. — Jonathan Haidt

It is better to protest than to accept injustice. — Rosa Parks

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces ... But I loved her — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. — Camille Paglia

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. — George Gaylord Simpson

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. — Jeff Lemire

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22. — Jenny Slate

Trying to replace the common law with a rationally designed law is, he jests, like trying to design a better rhinoceros in a laboratory. — Matt Ridley

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. — Henry David Thoreau

To analyze is to renounce yourself
One can reason only in a circle
One sees only what one wants to see
Birth solves nothing
I admit I'm crying. — Nicanor Parra

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands. — Rumi