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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d215cd1 | Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out. | bell hooks | ||
| d3ae1b3 | Men do oppress women. People are hurt by rigid sexist role patterns. These two realities coexist. Male oppression of women cannot be excused by the recognition that there are ways men are hurt by rigid sexist roles. Feminist activists should acknowledge that hurt, and work to change it--it exists. It does not erase or lessen male responsibility for supporting and perpetuating their power under patriarchy to exploit and oppress women in a ma.. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 709e220 | Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 053e3b3 | We knew that there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist. | Bell Hooks | ||
| cd104de | Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied. | satisfaction relationship heart love object partner desire | Bell Hooks | |
| f2364d5 | Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. | bell hooks | ||
| eb82e10 | As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being w.. | pain responsibility honesty love healing-shame hurting-heart wounds-to-the-heart discussion wounds confrontation woundedness wounded self-love hurting | bell hooks | |
| 281f3e5 | I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity. | humanity supernatural | Rachel Klein | |
| e1cdc92 | they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 85d9ecb | wny l'`tqd bn 'fDl t`ryf ymknn 'n nu`rf bh lnsn hw 'nh : ky'nun `q bsqyn !! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2d9d8ac | Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better. They respect one another more, and much is built on respect. And if once there has been love, if they have been married for love, why should love pass away? Surely one can keep it! It is rare that one cannot keep it. And if the husband is kind and straightforward, why should not love last? The first phase of married love wi.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1283996 | But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bff0bb4 | Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. | karma wrath parenthood | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c8b0290 | I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it. | innate-savagery emotional | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| a0282e3 | In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice? | divine-truth freedom-of-choice | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 107e2ca | In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your personality, and taking into yourself part of another; you are in mutual communion with one another, a little more attention and you will be rewarded with the knowledge of the most unexpected discoveries. You will come at last to look upon your work as a science; it will lay hold of all your life, and may fill up you.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0d85844 | The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and .. | belittle notes-from-underground fyodor-dostoyevsky ego judgemental | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8f7b7d8 | It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the first place, and secondly, Roman Catholicism is even worse than atheism - that's my opinion. Yes, that's my opinion! Atheism merely preaches a negation, but Catholicism goes further: it preaches a distorted Christ, a Christ calumniated and defamed by it, the opposite of Christ! It preaches Antichrist - I swe.. | the-idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b26e2e4 | n lnsn y`td kl shy, y lh mn Hqyr ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a025970 | All we Karamazovs are such insects. And angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a tempest in your blood. Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest - worse than a tempest! Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets before us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not an educated.. | god evil | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 38b31fe | You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded. I have referred to this already. I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you:" -- | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5ed2453 | And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That's interesting . . . poor idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dee947e | Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there's no escaping it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7d5ddf6 | What do you mean by isolation?' I asked him. 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. Fore every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fulness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fulness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realisation he ends .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 673b326 | I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves in spring. I love the blue sky. I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them. Yet from habit one's heart prizes them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1627672 | I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| ab11dab | ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 2e83c32 | I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn't seem much different from not loving. | henry | Tom Stoppard | |
| 758d7b7 | He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| d639c2d | I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness. | madness reality | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| 6f26b2a | So why don't we have a go? There are two of us.' Little Mike realized that his friend was actually serious. 'Two of us? Father Hillary had God Almighty helping out, and look where it got him.' 'I know. But we're a team. For years, since primary. Batman and Robin.' 'Robin got killed,' said Mike. Christy was shocked. 'He did not, did he? Jesus, I didn't hear about that.' 'Yeah. It was a big shock. The Joker kilt him.' 'That fuckin' Joker. I d.. | batman-robin joker | Eoin Colfer | |
| c006d09 | Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 01b3031 | Humanity was heaved back to the paper age in half a second. Life-support systems spat out bolts of energy and died. Precious manuscripts were lost. Banks collapsed as all financial records for the past fifty years were completely wiped out. Planes fell from the sky, the Graum II space station drifted off into space, and defense satellites that were not supposed to exist stopped existing. People took to the streets, shouting into their dead .. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 3e23c8d | I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass!" Donal let out a long suffering sigh. "Eoin is being a writer." Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 2bbb8b5 | But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering; B, Crisis always drew insects; and, C, Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it. | politics | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 8be8884 | The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it. | Denis Diderot | ||
| f0c08f8 | The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake -- let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c250f06 | Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their desti.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a1933f2 | The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. | immaterial ideal | Victor Hugo | |
| 8e98049 | She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 61bd20c | Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after life. But ignorance, mixed with the human composition, blackens it. This incurable ignorance possesses the heart of man, and there becomes evil. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 05ddd23 | Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for the night with it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. (Bishop of D) | Victor Hugo | ||
| 41aa36e | Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on my breviary, felt even at night, in my dreams, your form in contact wih my own, I desired to see you again, to touch you, to know who you were, to see whether I should really find you like the ideal image which I had retained of you, to shatter my dream, perchance with reality. At all events, I hoped that a new impression would ef.. | perdition | Victor Hugo | |
| 230d0f9 | There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggeration. Climbing wearies. The steepnesses take away one's breath; we slip on the slopes, we are hurt by the sharp points which are its beauty; the foaming torrents betray the precipices, clouds hide.. | prodigy | Victor Hugo |