"Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them."

-- Zygmunt Bauman

#Hands Quotes #Differences Quotes #Rights Quotes

“The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.”
“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
“The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.”
“Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.”
“If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!”

Source : S. R. Ranganathan (2006). “The Five Laws of Library Science”, Ess Ess Publications
“The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.”

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