"The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion."

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Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.168, Courier Corporation

Thorstein Veblen

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“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”
“I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.”
“It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.”

Source : Case of John Lambert and others, 22 How. St. Tr. 1018, 1793.
“Be as pissed off as you want to be. Donâ€™t hold back because you think itâ€™s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldnâ€™t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. (I know, Iâ€™m cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if youâ€™re PMSing, call them on their bullshit.”

Source : Jessica Valenti (2009). “He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know”, p.69, Seal Press
“The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.”
“Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.”
“Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.”
“...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98Â¢.”

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