#lit

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#cause #greatest #politician #render #serviceable

Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#eating-disorder #eating-disorders #mirrors #poetry #self-esteem

Politics is a blood sport. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#politics

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#choose #citizens #differently #disapproval #hearts

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#condemnation #dust #future #god #into

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#politics #stupidity

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.' ↗

— Chastity Bono

#been #bit #changed #community #focused

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing. ↗

— Bobby Bonilla

#communicate #everybody #great #great thing #regardless

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#characteristic #feminine #flexibility #i #i am

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#little #nothing #very #without #you