Petrusky Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them. — Zygmunt Bauman

(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul. — Arthur Holitscher

Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Whither right and glory lead) — Elizabeth II

In memory of Terry Pratchett,
who showed us all how it's done — Charles Stross

The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's ... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die. — Lucinda Williams