Quotes
Authors
Augusten Burroughs

"I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes #Eye Quotes

“The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.”
“Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.”
“Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.”
“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”

Source : Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”
“After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence. An individual in this situation is going to be followed closely, and if they've made this advance request, and had it approved, then obviously it's up to the medical team advising them to follow the legislation.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. January 25, 2016.
“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.”
“Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.”

You may also like: