"Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them."

-- Noel Fielding

#Depressing Quotes #Reality Quotes #World Quotes

“If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I dont just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.”
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
“The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.”
“Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.”
“College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.”
“In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in the village with her husband's family, she really has very little opportunity to make her own decisions. If she comes for a while to work in a factory, she has her own money. In family agriculture, it's never your money. It's whatever somebody decides to give you. For many people this is tremendously valuable, because then they can step up.”
“Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.577, Harvard University Press
“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”

Source : Tony Kushner, Pierre Corneille (1994). “The illusion”

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