#mage

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#horrific #images #initially #september #solidarity

Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#demand #hurt #unconditional-love #life

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#children #damage #damaged #done #ever

Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#damaged #lifestyle

I absolutely refuse to associate myself with anyone who cannot discern the essential night-and-day difference between theocratic fascism and liberal secular democracy, even less do I want to engage with those who are incapable of recognizing the basic moral distinction between premeditated mass murder and unintentional killing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#collateral-damage #false-equivalence #moral-equivalence #war-on-terror #iraq

What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity. ↗

— Toba Beta

#projected-image #public-consciousness #environmentalism

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#any #anyone #anything #been #blake

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#believing #creation #every #himself #his

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#big #big problem #cleaner #corrupt #greece

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#because #boring #children #criminal #cruel