#supreme

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#moral #morality #nature #supreme-being #nature

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. ↗

— Chanakya

#alone #bad #born #consequences #dies

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#crazy #supreme #supreme being

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. ↗

— John Doolittle

#comes #court #court decision #decision #elementary

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#institutions #people #presuppose #religious #religious people

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#center #creation #earth #ego #expression

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#case #communities #community #court #individual

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#guilt #supreme #time #waste #waste of time