#orient

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#faulkner #got #i #into #never

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. ↗

— James F. Amos

#every #first #marine #marines #member

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#harem #imaginable #jumble #most #oriental

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#disorienting #parties #really #sad #wrap

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#been #congress #elected #ever #institution

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#behavior #capitalist #career #choice #dress