#pro

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence. ↗

— Richard Yates

#silence #improvement

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#descriptive #flying #prose #writing #description

After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#prison #prisoner #description

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#commodity-production #communism #economics #communism

Someday is not a day of the week. ↗

— Janet Dailey

#procrastination #humor

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#prozac-nation #nationalism

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity ↗

— Stephen King

#analogy #disapproval #motto #pacifism #paradox

The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#hatred #materialism #problems #alcohol

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#productivity #economics