Wieger Van Quotes & Sayings

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you. — Julius Erving

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. — Johnny Carson

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human. — Agnes Smedley

Chipmunks have the best instinct: run and hide. — Marty Rubin

When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you ... when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing. It takes some strength of soul
and not just individual strength, but collective understanding
to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard. — Adrienne Rich

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and breeding, with virtue, delicacy, and truthfulness as symbols of gentility. Of my word and honour I was inordinately proud, and would permit no reflections to be cast upon them. I thought ethics too obvious and commonplace to be scientifically discussed, and considered philosophy solely in its relation to truth and beauty. I was, and still am, pagan to the core. — H.P. Lovecraft

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins. — Robert W. Funk