Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Robert Cialdini

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Leon Kass

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

André Gide

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

John Berger

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity.

J.K. Rowling

We can all make a difference. For the sake of humanity,we have too.

Timothy Pina

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

Cassandra Clare

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world

Voltaire