#nit

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. ↗

— Sivananda Saraswati

#love #modernity #peace #simplicity #inspirational

Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it. Better men than you, men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire. There is not a street you walk on, there is not a thread you wear, that was not made as this lantern was, by denying your philosophy of dirt and rats. You can make nothing. You can only destroy. You will destroy mankind, you will destroy the world. Let that suffice you. Yet this one old Christian lantern you shall not destroy. It shall go where your empire of apes will never have the wit to find it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mystery #men

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#humanity #nature-of-man #observation #men

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#female-versus-male #feminity #masculinity #men-versus-women #prostitution

Clichés so often befall vain people. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#vain #vanity #men

People who demand signs never believe them when they come. ↗

— Michael Card

#christianity #inspirational #religion #inspirational

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#christianity #religion #men

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#men #model #photography #relationships #vanity

Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall ↗

— Homer

#men