#ages

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#images #into #never #novel #philosophy

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. ↗

— Justin Sane

#fighting #great #history #i #listening

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. ↗

— Richard King

#ideas #images #words #wrong

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. ↗

— John Simon

#decide #democracy #encourages #ignorant #majority

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#children #each #fight #marriages #national

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#images #news #television #very

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages. ↗

— Selma Blair

#around #audience #bathroom #been #easy