#ole

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#broken #character #conscience #cry #homes

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#democrat #determined #era #franklin #i

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#body #everybody #her #his #however

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#best #even #evil #intolerable #necessary

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#blessing #even #every #evil #government

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#bleeds #contagion #death #hell #lets

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you. ↗

— Gary Ross

#again #animation #anybody #book #classic

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#correct #life #mistake #spend #trying

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#because #boring #i #only #shy