"The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes."

-- Georges Bataille

#Silence Quotes #Church Quotes #Dams Quotes

“Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.”
“Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.”
“I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.”
“I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.”
“But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.”

Source : John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1856). “Fox's Book of Martyrs, Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs ... to which is Added an Account of the Inquisition ... with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers”, p.480
“In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.”
“She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.”
“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

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