"What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?"

-- Storm Jameson

#Nerves Quotes #Matter Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.”
“One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.”
“Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.”

Source : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.82
“I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.”
“Every natural action is graceful.”
“I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.”
“The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.”

Source : "The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.
“One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.”

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