"Anti-Catholicism has always been the ***** of the Puritan."

-- Richard Hofstadter

#Puritan Quotes #Pornography Quotes #Catholicism Quotes

“I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat”
“Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.”

Source : "A life in writing: China Miéville" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.
“Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.”

Source : "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.
“I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.”
“Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.”
“I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.”
“For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.”
“There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!”

You may also like:

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
C. Wright Mills
Sociologist
Charles A. Beard
Historian
Christopher Lasch
Historian
Douglas Hofstadter
Professor
Eric Foner
Historian
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
Howard Zinn
Historian
Susan Jacoby
Author