#w

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#flaws #interesting #main #me #never

Language is not the barrier, the heart is". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#language-understanding #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

As for 'Dear Friend Hitler,' if it ever gets off the ground it will likely go down in history as little more than a symbol of Bollywood's limitless capacity for poor taste. ↗

— Sadanand Dhume

#dear-friend-hitler #hitler #taste-sociology #sociology

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#muslim #muslim world #poorest #powers #today

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#bravery

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#grammar

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. ↗

— China Miéville

#grammar

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#laws #sociology #nature

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#space #star #survive #travel #self-knowledge

Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed to be commonly understood. The award-winning documentary film Rape Culture made by Margaret Lazarus in 1975 takes credit for first defining the concept ↗

— Joyce E. Williams

#encyclopedia #prison #prison-rape #rape #rape-culture