"Hope costs nothing."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.”
“To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.177
“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”
“I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.”
“The history of theatre is the history of first nights.”

Source : John Lahr (2013). “Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton”, p.250, Open Road Media
“But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions”
“We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.”
“when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.”

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