"Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Sacrifice Quotes #Humans Quotes

“What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.”
“Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.”

Source : "Flashforward". Book by Robert J. Sawyer, 1999.
“I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.”
“I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.”
“Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.”
“Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher
“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”
“The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.”

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