"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-- Michel de Montaigne

#Memories Quotes #Wish Quotes #Mental Illness Quotes

“The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meaningful way, you have to bring in the roles of African Americans - the enslaved blacks - and the roles of women, who were scarcely acknowledged by those documents. You have to discuss why slavery wasn't outlawed by the Constitution, why women weren't given the votes. The Bill of Rights isn't about dead white males anymore, and it's not just about live white males either; it's about every minority group that exists.”
“For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.”

Source : "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book II, (Ch. 12), 1952.
“Video marketing is the most effective way for you to get someone's attention and engage them for a substantial period of time. Keeping someone engaged is the best and quickest way to gain their trust. Gaining trust is the only way to convert your audience into happy, long-term clients/customers/subscribers.”
“People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.”
“I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.”
“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”
“If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.”
“Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.”

You may also like: