"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."

-- Helen Garner

#Men Quotes #Insulting Quotes #Violence Quotes

“It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.”
“Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.”
“In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.”
“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

Source : Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.142
“In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.”
“The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.”
“I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.”

Source : "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.
“The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?”

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