#phobia

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#bed #could #ditch #dull #get

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#afraid #phobias #tell #us #will

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#first #first of all #going #i #made

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing. ↗

— Paul Monette

#glbt #hate #homophobia #religion #faith

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anything #because #day #did #differently

I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#also #away #classes #decided #entire

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. ↗

— C.J. Sansom

#xenophobia #men