#men

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill. ↗

— Patty Duke

#bigger #business #crime #going #i

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before. ↗

— Matt Groening

#before #beginning #characters #comments #done

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#existing #investigation #open #phenomena #science

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#breaker #capable #certainly #commandments #first

But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#assistance #away #bad #basic #commitments

Labelling is no longer a liberating political act but a necessity in order to gain entrance into the academic industrial complex and other discussions and spaces. For example, if so called “radical” or “progressive” people don’t hear enough “buzz” words (like feminist, anti-oppression, anti-racist, social justice, etc.) in your introduction, then you are deemed unworthy and not knowledgeable enough to speak with authority on issues that you have lived experience with. The criteria for identifying as a feminist by academic institutions, peer reviewed journals, national bodies, conferences, and other knowledge gatekeepers is very exclusive. It is based on academic theory instead of based on lived experiences or values. Name-dropping is so elitist! You're not a "real" feminist unless you can quote, or have read the following white women: (insert Women's Studies 101 readings). ↗

— Krysta Williams

#academic-industrial-complex #academy #feminism #feminist #feminist-theory

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that it is through the inner female side that we find the depth within ourselves – independent of if we are a man or a woman. It is through the female side that we find the inner source of love and truth. It is through the female side that we lit the light of our own consciousness. The more we learn to know the inner man and woman and the more we accept their different visions of life, the more a meeting happens between them that makes us happy and satisfied. Through embracing both these sides in ourselves, we realize that we really lack nothing – but that we already are love. When both the male and female side is capable of living in trust, a love begins to flow between them – a love that was always possible, but not realized. The inner woman is the meditative quality within ourselves. The inner woman is the source of love and truth. The inner woman is the capacity to surrender to life. It is through the inner woman that we are in contact with life. It is the inner woman that is the door to belongingness with the Whole. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#devotion #freedom #harmony #independence #inner-man-and-woman

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#fails #fulfill #government #legitimacy #loses

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#ends #laws #little #make #meet