#ola

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#disregarded #disrespected #feel #humiliated #hurt

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#because #crazier #healthy #i #isolating

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#called #concerned #danger #divine #expression

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. ↗

— Julian Assange

#because #behavior #good #good behavior #intelligence

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#both #both sides #highly #immigration #issue

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#exposed #film #good #good thing #people

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#disarming #flagrant #iraq #legal #resolutions

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#cannot #consistently #deliberately #denial #everything

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#east #especially #europe #feudal #feudalism

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eastern-european #ernest-gellner #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #germans