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“I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord's presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had to ask the Lord to draw back lest He kill me. It was so glorious that I couldn't stand more than a small portion of it.”
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“... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.”
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“If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.”
Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press
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“Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.”
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“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”
Source : Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
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“Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so.”
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“There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.”
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“The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.”
Source : Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”