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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

the reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'! ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#spiritual-warfare #spirituality #beauty

Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#homosexuality #men #safe-sex #sex #men

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us ... Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits ... No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves ... Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men ... My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once ... Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine, Ever mine, Ever ours. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#faith

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#humanity #mankind #men

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#independence #marriage #men #women #marriage

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#girls #men #sex #sexuality #men

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for all stain is impurity. A bee's swarm is evil — inside one's clothes. "Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothing of course is dirtier than to try and use Adonai as a fig-leaf for one's shame. To seduce women under the pretense of religion is unutterable foulness; though both adultery and religion are themselves clean. To mix jam and mustard is a messy mistake. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#adultery #morality #purity #shame #thelema

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artist #perception #reality #art

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ↗

— Jay Leno

#christmas #corruption #nativity #politics #religion