"God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil."

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Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.49, Beacon Press

Mary Daly

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.”
“If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.”
“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

Source : Etgar Keret (2006). “The Nimrod Flipout: Stories”, p.55, Macmillan
“The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.”
“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”
“The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
“If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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