#su

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#creature #hideous #like #more #see

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. ↗

— Will Durant

#asks #because #case #his #laws

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#her #into #literature #love #only

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#children #dictates #even #landscape #measure

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#analyze #changing #changing the world #communism #deem

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#confess #cup #easier #front #jury

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#demands #freedom #issuing #mind #only

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance. ↗

— Fred Durst

#fart #i #jokes #just #laugh

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#intellects #superior #things #truth