"Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control."

-- Jessica Mitford

#Funeral Quotes

“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.”
“I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy.... You know the new song is called Mental.... I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don't think that I am a completely normal person.”
“If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.”
“But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.”
“Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.”
“The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.”
“Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people within society. The otherworldly strength that you see during a gut is the raging effort to forget and overcome the weakness of the self and is possible because it bears all the wrath and indignation of the people against oppression. Extraordinary acts performed with remarkable exaggeration encounter the human instinct to demolish one's own limitations, producing catharsis.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.”

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