"Responsibility without power is a really bad deal."

-- Patrick Califia

#Responsibility Quotes #Deals Quotes

“They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!”

Source : "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.
“I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.”
“Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?”
“Oh yeah, youâ€™re a regular sage. Shouldnâ€™t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?â€ â€œHave I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?â€ he countered.”
“I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.”
“Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.”
“It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.”
“Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.”

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