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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 342224c | We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 03b6967 | lnsHb l~ Hlmn qd ykwn khTran | Azar Nafisi | ||
| ca0d6ed | American students, we are told, are falling behind in reading and math; on test after test, they score below most European students (at the level of Lithuania), and the solution, rather than seeking to engage their curiosity, has been testing and more testing-- a dry and brittle method that produces lackluster results. And so resources are pulled from the "soft" fields that are not being tested. Music teachers are being fired or not replace.. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| c17b32f | What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is | aldous-huxley america brave-new-world george-orwell huxley orwell politics society television | Neil Postman | |
| d89cd27 | Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 00a722d | You think this is the first time such a thing has happened? Don't you know about oxygen?" "I know it's necessary for life." "It is now," Malcolm said. "But oxygen is actually a metabolic poison. It's a corrosive gas, like fluorine, which is used to etch glass. And when oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells--say, around three billion years ago--it created a crisis for all other life on our planet. Those plant ce.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| dd6cf67 | The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 8269831 | But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 558e52d | Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way." Malcolm shook his head." | Michael Crichton | ||
| c1a34e1 | They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. | prisoners science-fiction | Michael Crichton | |
| 58bd02d | Grant liked kids--it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums as they stared open-mouthed at the big skeletons rising above them. He wondered what their fascination really represented. He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority. They were symbolic parents. Fascinating and frigh.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 3b3d386 | Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true love, and all the rest of it. But apparently, Andre really had believed it. | marek timeline | Michael Crichton | |
| 671f8f2 | we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a re.. | computers science-fiction | Michael Crichton | |
| 013eef4 | I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 95b61ab | Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 4ba9c6a | Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drole et c'est plus long." [ ]" | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 2b2506b | The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms. | Judith Butler | ||
| 5355151 | The effect of gender is produced through the stylization of the body and, hence, must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and styles of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self. This formulation moves the conception of gender off the ground of a substantial model of identity to one that requires a conception of gender as a constituted social temporality. | normative-perceptions-of-gender rather-constructed-than-natural social-context | Judith Butler | |
| 0c5a493 | Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence. | Judith Butler | ||
| 048543d | Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of t.. | Judith Butler | ||
| 31b358b | she said to me. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 514561c | Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than Richard Nixon. For the last twenty-six years of his life he worked as an informant for the FBI and turned his friends into the police and betrayed the peace symbol he hid behind. | betrayal fbi hunter-s-thompson police timothy-leary | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 1ad1a86 | Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy! | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| d1bc1e1 | But from now on let's try to be careful when we're around people I know. You won't sketch them and I won't Mace them. We'll just try to relax and get drunk. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 784fb66 | There was also the socio-psychic factor. Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. To as it were, in the womb of the desert sun. Just roll the roof back and screw it on, grease the face with white tanning butter and move out with the music at top volume, and at least a pint of ether. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 5601d41 | The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes. | survival wipe-out | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 2736332 | a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody--or at least some force--is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel. This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic ... a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authori.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7765f37 | Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant....And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point i.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| c5bf87c | Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. | insult politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 0b36401 | This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. | nihilism society | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 43d03d8 | On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth. | drunk journey stroll | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 513160a | Life just seems too huge and too fascinating for me to begin thinking about curing my restlessness at this stage of the game. Maybe later. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 125076f | California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Fricso, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur...The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 1772e78 | Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a1b4fb6 | Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary people will alter their memories of the past to make them fit their perceptions. It is the way all normal brains function under ordinary circumstances. | Scott Adams | ||
| a70eba9 | Everything that motivates living creatures is based on some weakness or flaw. Hunger motivates animals. Lust motivates animals. Fear and pain motivate animals. A God would have none of those impulses. Humans are driven by all of our animal passions plus loftier-sounding things like self-actualization and creativity and freedom and love | Scott Adams | ||
| bcccf5b | Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for something your brain is not equipped to fully understand. God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chair you are sitting in. They are all metaphors for something you will never understand. | Scott Adams | ||
| 3afd46f | Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! | Herman Melville | ||
| 9d70098 | In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. | Herman Melville | ||
| d6d3bbd | Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a .. | Herman Melville | ||
| a092c3d | So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. they err who would assert that invariable this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. An when at last it i.. | human-misery melville misery pity suffering | Herman Melville | |
| f343383 | The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum. | Herman Melville | ||
| 72aafad | The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is he deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. For even so it is in all material factories. The spoken words that are inaudible among the flying spindles; those same words are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements. The.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 0a100fd | an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. | danger peril | Herman Melville |