"If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree."

-- Jefferson Davis

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”

Source : "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.
“I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.”
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
“The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!”
“Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.”

Source : George Shinn (2014). “The Miracle of Motivation: The Guide to Becoming Everything You Want to Be”, p.111, BookBaby
“I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.”
“As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.”
“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.29, Penguin

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