#stance

All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear! ("The Jelly-Fish") ↗

— David H. Keller

#fear #relativity #scale #science #size

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. ↗

— Jessica Zafra

#books #fact #substance #truth #witty

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#ontology #philosophy #politics #resistance-theory #political-philosophy

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#africans #black #civil-rights #justice #king

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#much #opposed #pay #public #public relations

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

#grasping #lose #shadow #substance #you

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ↗

— Edward Albee

#come #correctly #distance #go #long

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #instance #last #last night #luck

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#distrust #founded #ideological #intelligence #just

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#go #goes #good #i #instance