"Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person."

-- Josef Pieper

#Moral Quotes #Surrender Quotes #Abstinence Quotes

“So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?”

Source : Source: www.news-journalonline.com
“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.”
“The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.114, Lulu.com
“Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.”
“God will do nothing except you pray; and you have to be clear what you want”
“The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'”
“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press

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