"The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another."

-- C. Northcote Parkinson

#Political Quotes

“To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called â€˜the rupture of planeâ€™ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.”
“The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.”

Source : Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)
“...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.”
“Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”

Source : Emma Bull (2009). “Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles”, p.22, Macmillan
“We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.”
“Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.”
“A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.”
“He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.”

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