#ali

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs). ↗

— Amartya Sen

#respect

we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#nature

There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#gender #masculinity #sexuality #nature

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#mortality #death

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. ↗

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

#perspective #reality #truth #respect

Monsters don't heal people. Angels do. - Sabrina ↗

— Donna Galanti

#prostitute #science-fiction #science

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#healing #medicine #surgeon #respect

The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual...Mystery at Geneva ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#punctuality #respect

Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#romantic

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality. ↗

— Ariana Franklin

#art