Latest Quotes

“If you experience life as a communist or a capitalist, as a Muslim or a Jew, you are experiencing life in a prejudiced, slanted way; there is a barrier, a layer of fat between Reality and you because you no longer see and touch it directly.”

— Anthony De Mello, The Way to Love

“It is true that the surface may have some connection with the depths, but if we are to help you to prevent war we must try to penetrate deeper beneath the skin.”

— Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas

“America is a nation whose genius seems to be adaptability and change.”

— Walter Ong, American Catholic Crossroads

“The exertion of willful effort generates a physical force that has the power to change how the brain works and its physical structure.”

— John Bradshaw, Post Romantic Stress Disorder

“Nobody could say Obama didn't understand the problems of working people. Obama was still paying off student loans when he stepped onto the national stage in 2004. Clinton is somebody who hasn't driven her own car in three decades.”

— Katie Packer, 2016: A billionaire and millionaire in the year of populism

“These disgraceful attacks are straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, and Bernie Sanders is the only person who can put a stop to them. Sanders needs to both forcefully denounce and apologize for his supporters' unacceptable behavior — not walk away.”

— Stephanie Schriock, Sanders issues defiant statement under pressure over ruckus

“Hillary didn't inspire me to join the Democratic Party, Bernie did, so it's hard for me to not imagine following Bernie wherever he goes.”

— Ashley Wolthuis, Sanders delegates brace for Philadelphia convention fight

“Google alone received almost 560 million takedown notices in 2015.”

— Jonathan Taplin, Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t

“Music piracy has gotten so bad that, in 2015, vinyl record sales generated more income for music creators than the billions of music streams on YouTube and its competitors.”

— Jonathan Taplin, Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t

“Men do not live in cultures where the degradation and brutalisation of men at the hands of women is the stuff of pornography, entertainment and advertising. Men do not live with the consciousness that they are being hunted by women who would take sexual delight in dismembering them simply on account…”

— Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”

— David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

— Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy

“A memory can be a marvelous getaway, but you must never make a home there.”

— Beau Taplin, G E T A W A Y

“But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy.”

— Warsan Shire, 32 Warsan Shire Quotes That Perfectly Describe Love, Heartbreak, and Everything In Between

“The fear of offending is stronger than the fear of pain.”

— Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

“I kiss your shattered ego and say, “Here, take mine.” “Take all I have.” So you take it all and leave for the girl I could taste all along.”

— Ari Eastman, When He’s Sleeping With Her And You Don’t Know It

“It is well known that rhythm is not meter or cadence, even irregular meter or cadence: there is nothing less rhythmic than a military march.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

“Rhythm is the milieus' answer to chaos.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A thousand

“The next day I woke up in my bedroom. It was snowing and raining again. I opened the door of my coffin and drank some blood from a bottle I had. My coffin was black ebony and inside it was hot pink velvet with black lace on the ends. I got out of my coffin and took of my giant MCR t-shirt which I us…”

— Tara Gilesbie, My Immortal

“From chaos, Milieus and Rhythms are born. This is the concern of very ancient cosmogonies. Chaos is not without its own directional compo-nents, which are its own ecstasies. We have seen elsewhere how all kinds of milieus, each defined by a component, slide in relation to one another, over one anoth…”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus