#sm

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#atheist #left #new #obligatory #religion

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#basement #beach #bowling #bowling alley #came

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. ↗

— David Byrne

#drama #exciting #going #lives #most

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. ↗

— David Byrne

#audiences #benefits #clubs #fail #few

People use irony as a defense mechanism. ↗

— David Byrne

#defense mechanism #irony #mechanism #people #use

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ↗

— Lord Byron

#away #beam #clouds #evening #life

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve. ↗

— Herman Cain

#achieve #back #because #being #excuse

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America. ↗

— Herman Cain

#becoming #believe #businessman #country #does

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman. ↗

— Herman Cain

#america #businessman #fix #get #help

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#days #democracy #effectively #enough #face