#got

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#religion #religion

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hatred #intolerance #narrow-mindedness #perception #persecution

No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#peace #respect

In another life, I would be your belle ↗

— Katy Perry

#the-one-that-got-away #dreams

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#fission #fusion #sad

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#remembered #comfort

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. ↗

— Stephen Carpenter

#forgotten #memories #memory #remembering #remembrance

Write what should not be forgotten. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#on-writing #writing #writing-advice #write

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#change #got #middle #never #night

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#heathcliff #destruction