#conception

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#god #hell #menacing #messiah #need

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Addams

#affection #cannot #conception #embody #hope

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#birth #called #cause #children #conception

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. ↗

— John Sladek

#depending #least #preconceptions #sf

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#believe #general #i #i think #lacks

What do I need to do to get you to trust me?   What do you want from me?”   He yells. I steel myself and look up into his panicked eyes and fight the pull I feel at coming in contact with those sapphires again.   “Nothing! I don’t want anything from you!”   I shout out the biggest lie I have ever told in my entire life.   Connor’s eyes widen at my words and his face falls, every ounce of fire gone from his gaze.   He backs away then smiles weakly at me. “Well, Merry Fucking Christmas Nina, because you have it all anyway. ↗

— Devon Herrera

#misconceptions #life

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#art #conception #everybody #going

It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not. ↗

— Peter Hook

#meet #millionaires #misconception #people #same