Offishly Quotes & Sayings

All too frequently in the women's movement it was assumed one could be free of sexist thinking by simply adopting the appropriate feminist rhetoric; it was further assumed that identifying oneself as oppressed freed one from being an oppressor. To a very grave extent such thinking prevented white feminists from understanding and overcoming their own sexist-racist attitudes toward black women. They could pay lip-service to the idea of sisterhood and solidarity between women but at the same time dismiss black women. Just — Bell Hooks

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible. — Plato

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having. — Elizabeth Goudge

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end — Immanuel Kant

I'd rather have Prada shoes than eat. — Alice Evans

That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person. — Tony Campolo

But when Robert touches me in just the right way, I forget. I forget what it is I want, or rather I forget that I want anything other than him. — Kyra Davis

He stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again. — Patrick McGrath