"Idealist: a cynic in the making."

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Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

Irving Layton

#Cynic Quotes #Idealist Quotes

“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something itâ€™s not meant to be, isnâ€™t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. Itâ€™s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.”

Source : Peter Enns (2014). “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It”, p.11, Harper Collins
“I make ***** eat dirt and fart dust, Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Ð¯" Us.”
“Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.”
“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”
“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.”
“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
“I want to make the most out of the word â€˜fame.â€™ I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work. Thereâ€™s something going on in Chile right now with the water, so I think Iâ€™m going to down there in a month to help out. My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything thatâ€™s going on.”
“And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.”

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