#comment

Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#men

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#loneliness #social-commentary #nature

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. ↗

— Larry Niven

#social-commentary #science

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#comment #even #i #make #man

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#almost #code #comments #included #lines

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever. ↗

— David Fincher

#ever #i #know #listened #someone

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#comment #less #little #look #mississippi