"Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity."

-- William Blackstone

#Humanity Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“Speech isn't for agony.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.76, Open Road Media
“A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.”
“You can't win by being more average than average.”
“Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.”
“I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.”
“When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.”
“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.”
“Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.”

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