#anti

Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly. She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart full of adrenaline inside a chest. ↗

— V.S. Atbay

#poetry-quotes #romantic #spiritual #nature

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness. ↗

— Immanuel Wallerstein

#capitalism #human-rights #religion #universalism #religion

Ganteng bukan segalanya. Kau belum tahu saja, sewaktu-waktu dia bisa berubah menjadi monster yang mengerikan. ↗

— Francisca Todi

#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic #romantic-comedy

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#religion

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next. ↗

— Alexa Grace

#crime-thriller #romance-novels #romantic-suspense #thriller #romantic

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. ↗

— Christian Bale

#comedies #doubt #enjoy #get #i

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #eoin-colfer #orion-fowl #focus

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eastern-european #ernest-gellner #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #germans

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#antiquity #assurance #general #opinion #truth

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#antiques #certain #i #interest #like