"Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot."

-- Bill Vaughan

#Hands Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?”
“I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.”
“Clarity affords focus.”
“The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage
“A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.”
“That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.”
“We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.”
“Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.120, Prometheus Books

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