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““The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.”

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson, A sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

— Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”

— Cassandra Clare, City Of Bones

““Everything else in astronomy is like the eye. Finally, astronomy grew ears. We never had ears before.””

— SZABOLCS MARKA, Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory

“Is there some truth that is revealed when lovers argue? No. Arguing is to a relationship what masturbation is to sex.”

— Simon Critchley, ABC of Impossibility

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, A Lifetime of Peace

“It is impossible to point out stupidity without it pointing back at you.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000

“There is no poverty and no wealth. There is merely an impoverished definition of wealth — in terms of economics and calculation. Unfortunately, the entire world’s poor have signed up to this definition which makes them poor to the second degree.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Since the media always make you out to say the opposite of what you say, you should have the courage always to say that opposite of what you think.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990

“True poetry is what which has lost all the distinctive signs of poetry. If poetry exists, it is anywhere but in poetry.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990

“Man has never signified death for woman, as she signifies it for man.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990

“Historical amnesia and incuriousness about the violence of the past is the luxury of the oppressor. The colonized subject lives the historical violence of their expropriation viscerally, corporeally, all the way to psychosis, mental disorder, and phenomena.”

— Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless

“The history of patriarchy is a history of women’s choicelessness, of choices being made for them by men rather than being able to make choices for themselves. Feminism’s commitment to ending patriarchy entails a commitment to expanding choice for women. This requires the material provision of a much…”

— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty

“The noumenal is the realm of ideas and exists only in and through reason. In the phenomenal realm, our knowledge is grossly incomplete, we can know objects only as they affect us; what they may be in themselves remains unknown.”

— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty

“If generalized conditions like poverty can be established as a barrier to freedom, perhaps patriarchy can be similarly established.”

— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty

“In this sense, these rules and norms of patriarchy are not simply external restrictions on women’s otherwise natural desires; rather, they create an entire cultural context that makes women seem to choose what they are in fact restricted to.”

— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty

“Like the instructor who tutors individuals in the correct employment of language, thereby enhancing the student’s freedom to communicate, the corporative state discharges a similar tutelary function with respect to the economy. In the final analysis, the true freedom of the individual does not find…”

— A. James Gregor, Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought

“My management troubles may have derived mainly from my lack of business experience, but they were multiplied by not having a real partner to help me run the company.”

— Katharine Graham, Personal History

“The more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.”

— Katharine Graham, Personal History