#fr

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#also #beautiful #brings #construction #dash

The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#girlfriends #got #like #lot #lots

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#discover #free #i #i am #who

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. ↗

— David Bohm

#attempt #confronting #crises #essence #extremely

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#confrontation #could #course #destroyers #gulf

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

#friends #like #must #screwed #strings

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#country #days #deal #delano #economic