#eu

Why, Noah, do you know the word for vagina in every language?" "Because I’m European, and therefore more cultured than you. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#culture

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #morality #neutrality #hell

Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with testable reality. In some cases, pseudoscience simply relies on language that is deliberately vague and poorly defined to deceive. While outright lunacy is almost always easy to spot, the most dangerous of pseudoscientific meanderings are those filled with scientific terminology that, even for experts, can initially be daunting and impressive. Upon dissection, however, the terminology is invariably found to be misused, or used in a context far from accepted understanding. However convincing and artful, however much we may even wish the conclusions to be true, monuments built in such shifting sands cannot withstand the inevitable tests of time. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#politics #pseudoscience #science #art

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ↗

— Richard Bach

#professional #professional writer #quit #who #writer

And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#roast-beast #the-grinch #christmas

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#responsibility #voyeurism #innocence

Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason." Zeus's royal nostrils flared. "You dare accuse-" "No more undetermined children," I said. "I want you to promise to claim your children-all your demigod children-by the time they turn thirteen. They won't be left out in the world on their own at the mercy of monsters. I want them claimed and brought to camp so they can be trained right, and survive." "Now, wait just a moment," Apollo said, but I was on a roll. "And the minor gods," I said. "Nemesis, Hecate, Morpheus, Janus, Hebe--they all deserve a general amnesty and a place at Camp Half-Blood. Their children shouldn't be ignored. Calypso and the other peaceful Titan-kind should be pardoned too. And Hades-" "Are you calling me a minor god?" Hades bellowed. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hades #percy-jackson #zeus #parenting

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #irish #misquote #psychoanalysis #psychology

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#loyalty #teleus #the-king-of-attolia #trust #loyalty

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. ↗

— Richard Weikart

#darwinism #ethnic-cleansing #eugenics #evolution #genocide