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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4156f2a | Salome interrupts. We're not members! she repeats. We are the women of Molotschna. The entire colony of Molotschna is built on the foundation of patriarchy (translator's note: Salome didn't use the word "patriarchy" - I inserted it in the place of Salome's curse, of mysterious origin, loosely translated as "talking through the flowers"), where the women live our their days as mute, submissive, and obedient servants. Animals. Fourteen-year-o.. | religion women | Miriam Toews | |
| d1ebae8 | I googled 'suicide gene' but cancelled the search at the last second. I didn't want to know. Plus, I already knew. People ask: but how does this happen? To think that even with all the security measures we employ these days to keep things out - fences and motion detectors and cameras and sunscreen and vitamins and deadbolts and chains and bike helmets and spinning classes and guards and gates - we can have secret killers lurking inside us? .. | dying suicide | Miriam Toews | |
| 2efefa6 | Ona protests, quietly, that she doesn't believe that at all. She doesn't believe in authority, period, because authority makes people cruel. Salome interrupts: The people with authority or the people without? | Miriam Toews | ||
| f4514be | What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particular ideological extreme --and some would say greedy-- subsection of the propertied) to restrict the promise of democracy for the many, acting in the knowledge that the majority would choose other politics if it could | politics usa | Nancy MacLean | |
| 9002962 | Slavery is an institution ordaines by Providence, honored by time, sanctioned by the Gospel, and especially favorable to personal and national liberty" Calhoun" | Nancy MacLean | ||
| d1e7682 | Calhoun more an more identified the federal government as a menace to liberty | Nancy MacLean | ||
| e3201d5 | Calhoun) He feared, as his successors today do, a government that hits band of like-minded property supremacists could not control | Nancy MacLean | ||
| de1f2eb | By the 1950s, the nation's premier workshop for the shrewd construction of elaborate rules to ensure the minority elite's power over the majority was the state of Virginia | Nancy MacLean | ||
| 441b6b6 | In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. | Aldous Huxley | ||
| 20e2c5f | Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty" | politics | Nancy MacLean | |
| 4a40906 | Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed" | politics | Nancy MacLean | |
| de6dd80 | What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particularly ideologically extreme--and some would say greedy--subsection of the propertied) to restrict the promise of democracy for the many, acting in the knowledge that the majority would choose other policies if it could. | politics | Nancy MacLean | |
| 9a989d8 | Gabriel thinks a lot of you.' 'I thought I talked too much for his comfort,' said Lymond. 'But I hear he has a ravishing sister. I must mend my ways. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6b0366b | Some love for a living,' said Lymond. 'And some kill. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b55e3ee | It is a political axiom that power follows property. | Aldous Huxley | ||
| 19b0987 | No, because I do my sums with matchsticks. | Alec Douglas-Home | ||
| 1b381f6 | Men live, not while they breathe, but while they live well. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 3eee76a | I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson. | Alec Douglas-Home | ||
| 1bffed9 | Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television. | Alec Douglas-Home | ||
| 6727313 | nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it. | Alec Guinness | ||
| e5ca17d | The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy. | Alec Waugh | ||
| a0274e2 | Every man and every woman is a star. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| dc209ce | Like King Lewis of Hungary, who was immaturely born, came of age too soon and was immaturely married, my age is out of joint with my phenomenal destiny. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 8bbb7fd | For how long can one maintain total vigilance? For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 831ffa1 | How nice to go through life being male, pretty and wanted. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 82be8d7 | I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 6576f11 | But you do not know me,' Lymond said. 'Whereas I know you exceedingly well. You should be glad. I may well find it tedious; but you should have an extremely interesting journey. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0716684 | I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 6a27393 | An unheroic and unpublicized scene. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 396e6f7 | I think you might come to forget, too, that life is more than a science. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 2f024a6 | Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 869e753 | Love is the law, love under will. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| d5635ea | Marriage, like law, is a practice. Aut bibat, aut abeat. Subscribe, or get out of it. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| be10eda | What is there but untruth and heartbreak wherever you go? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c4711cb | I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 13ffe3e | The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 6efe80b | habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death." Katherine" | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 4c962f2 | Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency." Kate" | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 8572d9c | Between the palaces of the knights and those that served them; the convents, the elegant homes belonging to officers of the Church and the town; between the bakehouse and the shops of the craftsmen, the arsenals and magazines, the warehouses, the homes of merchants and courtesans, Italian, Spanish, Greek; past the painted shrines and courtyards scraped from pockets of earth with their bright waxy green carob trees, a fig, a finger of vine, .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9aec0a8 | any country which has suffered a reverse of fortune instantly turns on its nonconformists. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 30b2ba0 | My son ... my son,' said Francis Crawford before the blurred, failing candles, their light searching over his disordered, bent head and closed eyes and the long, scarred lines of his hands, laid flat on the steel. 'So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live ... live ... Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though the world should reel to a puny death, and the wolves are appointed our godfathers, I will not f.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 937a191 | Who in God's name do these rubies belong to?' 'You. But you wouldn't suit them,' said Philippa. 'Ffarewell Carboncle chosen chief. It's my husband-hunting equipment. What about you?' 'I don't hunt husbands,' said Lymond, getting up. 'It's the other way about. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| edce97e | He was the sort of person one could with justice kill if only - if only one had had the sense to bring a weapon. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| d84df35 | You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled. | Dorothy Dunnett |