#man

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation. ↗

— Russel Kirk

#human-rights #judgement-day #law #equality

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know. ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#bad #fun #going #i #interesting

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#chaos #enlightenment #force #god #human

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#detached #disturbing #got #head #i

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#check #checks #come #eight #get