Salonicco Map Quotes & Sayings

The torture of animals, especially cats, was a popular amusement throughout early modern Europe. The power of cats was concentrated on the most intimate aspect of domestic life: sex. Le chat, la chatte, le minet mean the same thing in French slang as 'pussy' does in English, and they have served as obscenities for centuries. — Slavoj Zizek

You see, dervish, it wasn't always like this. Violence wasn't my element, but it is now. When God forgets about us down here, it falls upon us common people to toughen up and restore justice. So next time you talk to him, you tell him that let him know that when he abandons his lambs, they won't meekly wait to be slaughtered. They will turn into wolves. — Elif Shafak

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road. — William Cowper

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,
one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library: — Anonymous

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — Desmond Tutu