#red

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#africa #aids #assault #attacks #behaviour

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#around #came #sacred #see #site

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#beholds #dreams #her #his #inferred

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#covered #decorum #every #every man #his

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#claim #contested #creature #fact #inferred

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#administration #being #being prepared #bush #bush administration

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#cause #freedom #just #know #message

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#being #blame #call #dream #ever