#simple

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#cut #cutting #dictatorships #down #expedient

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#simple #such #thing

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple. ↗

— Aulis Sallinen

#feel #good #good art #i #i feel

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#even #fight #gays #inside #lesbians

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#here #i #imagine #knower #knowledge

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#people #simple #simple things #things #tired

I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#catching #else #feel #find #going

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

#forsake #helpful #human #more #pity