#ship

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#encircle #may #round #world

If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks. ↗

— Alexander Masters

#friendship #homeless #strength #stuart-shorter #death

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#although #citizenship #english #group #half

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#commit #crimes #did #during #germany

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.' ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#anybody #bathroom #bring #coffee #down

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#choose #dictatorship #exist #fascist #i

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination