1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
2881
2882
2883
2884
2885
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2dad6ae | but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones | masters | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| b4e7673 | But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine -- yes, mine and not yours. I am not Roman, to let some man tell me what I may do with what the Goddess gave me | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| f9cd6f1 | Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance--no matter how improved--as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| f275130 | I had not been prepared for the simple charm of watching someone you love grow. | life love | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 3cec0d0 | You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7826162 | You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy,.. | racism | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 8e65de6 | I have not spent my time studying the problem of "race"--"race" itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. You see this from time to time when some dullard--usually believing himself white--proposes that the way forward is a grand orgy of black and white, ending only when we are all beige and thus the same "race." But a great number of "black" people already are beige. And the history of civilization is littered with dead.. | race | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| bc09da6 | the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6d773cd | Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d5da3e4 | The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant "government of the people" but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term "people" to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people," but the means by which "the people" acquired their names." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1dc055b | I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. | discipleship emotion self-discipline | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 6c17b24 | Perhaps our triumphs are not even the point. Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7615cc7 | But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing--that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time. And now when I measure this fear against the boldness that the masters of the galaxy imparted to their own children, I am ashamed. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0686581 | But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming 'the people' has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the belief that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes , which are indelible--this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have bee.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1c57427 | Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are--and I say this with big pride--the progeny of slaves. If there's any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origins and the great distance we've traveled since. Ditto for the dreams of a separate but noble past. Cosby's, and much of black America's, conservative analysis flattens history and smooths over the wrinkles that have characterized black America.. | culture political-philosophy race-and-racism-in-america | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| ff8f833 | The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 09d3caa | The "rising tide" theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black poor and an equivalent class of white poor, a black middle class and a white middle class, a black elite and a white elite. From this angle, the race problem was merely the result of too many blacks being found at the bottom of their ladder--too many who were poor and too few who were able to make their way to the next rung. If.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c46c2da | Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father. | father fatherhood parenting parents | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 1185fc7 | Como no va a gustarle a alguien un hombre que no solo se fija en los colores, sino que ademas los comenta. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5549b53 | witness the surprise of the average American: 'How is it possible that these people display and practise such a disregard for their own lives?' Is not the obverse of this surprise the rather sad fact that we, in First World countries, find it more and more difficult even to imagine a public or universal Cause for which we would be ready to sacrifice our life? | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| ef5572e | The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie - the truth lies outside, in what we do.8 | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| fd397dc | when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when I am able to describe her, not even when I learn her values, dreams, and so on, but only when I encounter the Other in her moment of jouissance: when I discern in her a tiny detail (a compulsive gesture, a facial expression, a tic) which signals the intensity of the real of jouissance. This encounter with the real is always traumat.. | lacan the-other the-real | Slavoj Žižek | |
| b2b9cdb | l 'dry lma `lyn HfZ dftr ywmyt Hwl 'mwr snkwn `l~ l'rjH bHl 'fDl n nsynh. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 7a3381b | 'Hynan , ykhf lns mn l'shkhS lmkhtlfyn `nhm . l y`ny dhlk 'nhm syy'wn wlknhm Dyqw ltfkyr wHsb | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 951b4be | Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day. | David Simon | ||
| 316b2c4 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis. THE TRUTH: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information that confirmed what you believed, while ignoring information that challenged your preconceived notions. | David McRaney | ||
| e86c96f | You are aware only of a small amount of the total information your eyes take in, and even less is processed by your conscious mind and remembered. | David McRaney | ||
| 6d082ce | A memory is least accurate when most reflected upon, and most accurate when least pondered. Together, those two facts make eyewitness testimony basically worthless. This isn't what most people believe. Psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris published a study in 2011 revealing that 63 percent of those surveyed in the United States believe memory works like a video camera, and another 48 percent believe memories are permanent. An ad.. | David McRaney | ||
| 6fdb342 | what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings. | John le Carré | ||
| c50ed23 | It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for. | John le Carré | ||
| 5bf9488 | Even his Englishness was a well-kept secret. | John le Carré | ||
| 78d5da9 | Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things. What do you think of i? | John le Carré | ||
| 15f4db1 | And we dress, sir --?" he murmured, feeling Osnard's gaze burning the nape of his neck. "Most of my gentlemen seem to favour left these days. I don't it's political." This was his standard joke, calculated to raise a laugh even with the most sedate of his customers. Not with Osnard apparently. "Never know where the bloody thing is. Bobs about like a windsock," he replied dismissively." | John le Carré | ||
| 0028a52 | He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included. | passion | John le Carré | |
| 42f8a85 | I've studied the disease, I've lived in the swamp. It is my informed conclusion that we are suffering, as an ex-great nation, from top-down corporate rot. And that's not just the judgement of an ailing old fart. A lot of people in my Service make a profession of not seeing things in black and white. Do not confuse me with them. I'm a late-onset, red-toothed radical with balls. Still with me? | John Le Carré | ||
| 5156c83 | I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his. We have crossed each other's frotiers, we are the no-men of this no-man's land. | John le Carré | ||
| 85bd976 | But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so important and taught him the habit of reality, and when she went there was nothing. | love-hurts | John le Carré | |
| 6c24875 | Charlie alone knew he was a ghost. | John le Carré | ||
| 592cc75 | It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible way, "on the shelf"." | John le Carré | ||
| c237fbb | The Armorys of this world don't steal. They serve their country right or wrong. Or they do until the day when they come face to face with real life and their warped rectitude deserts them and their faces unlock and become real, puzzled faces like everybody else's. So there's another god for you that's passed its sell-by date: enlightened patriotism, until this afternoon Nick Armory's religion. (ch. 14) | John le Carré | ||
| 6766ea9 | He would set up as a mild eccentric, discursive, withdrawn, but possessing one or two lovable habits such as muttering to himself as he bumbled along pavements. Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth.. | John le Carré | ||
| 5a294a8 | The greatest crime is to do nothing because we can only do a little (...) I feel nothing, because feeling is subversive and contrary to military discipline. Therefore I do not feel, but I fight and therefore I exist. (part I, chapter 10) | John le Carré | ||
| dd93889 | He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words. | learning learning-to-read literacy love | Markus Zusak | |
| ac757a0 | I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out." -- | Markus Zusak |