#tar

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#existence #go #lose #mad #meaningful

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#go #great #great organization #organization #phases

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

I started doing improv my sophomore year. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#i #improv #sophomore #sophomore year #started

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#move #only #ourselves #peace #planting

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#campaigned #carl #complex #destruction #end

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#benny #clarinet #dad #goodman #i

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#hate #hitters #i #mad #over