#anti

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

#center #chatter #chosen #condemning #consider

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. ↗

— James Joyce

#moment #really #romantic #satan #youth

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. ↗

— Leon Kass

#between #given #improve #savor #tension

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. ↗

— Tony Blair

#decides #divides #end #goes #his

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#always #choices #could #cowboy #films

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian. ↗

— John G. Diefenbaker

#anti-american #i #i am #strongly

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#hasn #me #over #panties #point

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#complained #despite #differences #embracing #friends

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #going #kind #platform #terrified