What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

David Schwimmer

We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings--animals and plants--are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory beccause they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Dasein (literally being-the-there)...Man as man is present...in a manner wholly different from...inanimate things.

Medard Boss, Existential Foundat

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Algernon Sydney

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Thomas Fuller

Love's a funny thing, especially with a man who gets paid to put junk in other people's slots. (The Mail Man)

Andrew Sturm

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure.

William Shakespeare

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

Henry David Thoreau

The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.

Serge Daney