"Grief alone can teach us what is man."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Grief Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Men Quotes

“To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.”

Source : "Heresies and Other Truths". townhall.com. November 19, 2008.
“The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.”

Source : Saint Catherine (of Genoa), Paul Garvin (1964). “The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa”
“Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.”
“Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”
“Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.”
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.”
“I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.”
“Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.174, A&C Black

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