"TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things."

-- Bill McKibben

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Might Quotes

“God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.”
“Only one thingâ€™s sadder than remembering you were once free, and thatâ€™s forgetting you were once free.”
“The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.”
“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.”
“Don't think shoot. Soon as you start thinking you miss.”
“The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.”

Source : "Party animal". www.theguardian.com. April 25, 1999.
“A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.”

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