#aria

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. ↗

— Michael Johns

#american #appropriately #central #crisis #decency

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. ↗

— Mother Jones

#humanitarian #i

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#films #gotten #line #out #story

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#air conditioning #barbarians #brought #coming #conditioning

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#australia #coming #coming home #extent #home

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #behalf #crosses #every #fearsome

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#caesar #claimed #give #god #jurisdiction

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#fundamental #hostility #part #regimes #religion

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#adversarial #artist #attack #been #before