"The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

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“I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. Thereâ€™s probably a third categoryâ€”the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but Iâ€™ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they donâ€™t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.”
“I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.”
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

Source : Emma Goldman (1914). “The Social Significance of the Modern Drama”
“It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand.”
“You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at allâ€¦”
“When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.”
“War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.”
“No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.”

Source : Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”

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