#hi

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#cares #ecclesiastical #just #materialist #more

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. ↗

— William Blum

#citizenry #convinced #many #morally #murder

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it? ↗

— Vida Blue

#child #every #every man #i #i think

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#cameras #equation #flashing #how #intense

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. ↗

— Vida Blue

#be nice #cocky #get #give #i

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. ↗

— Stella Blum

#claim #close #everybody #fashion #feelings

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. ↗

— Judy Blume

#creative #creative process #enjoy #i #process

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ↗

— William Blum

#dictatorship #propaganda #violence

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ↗

— William Blum

#also #beings #else #human #human beings

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. ↗

— Judy Blume

#books #censorship #due #fear #losers