#no

Virtue is the truest nobility. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#truest #virtue

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#believe #coastline #defense #else #i

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. ↗

— Judith Butler

#analytically #cannot #class #critique #different

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#back #because #become #biological #bit

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#man #nothing #serious #seriously #should

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #art #care #come #else

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#fail #must #others #succeed

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you. ↗

— Paul Butterfield

#enough #get #guess #i #long

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#benefit #choices #family #find #great

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#just #note #something #suicide #write