"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer"

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Bridget Riley

#Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Christianity Quotes

“If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.”
“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.203, Transaction Publishers
“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
“Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.”
“It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.”
“You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”
“Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.”
“Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.”

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