"I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety."

-- Vida Goldstein

#Women Quotes #Class Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.”
“I donâ€™t think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting. . . . Itâ€™s not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United States. I donâ€™t share the [attitude] that you can have graphic violence, but â€” God forbid â€” you see someoneâ€™s nipples.”
“It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.”
“lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”
“I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.”
“Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win”

Source : Song: Wait Your Turn, Album: Rated R: Remixed
“I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.”
“The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.174, Routledge

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