"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats" ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like." ~ Goethe ♥17SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." ~ Goethe ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." ~ Goethe ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~ Goethe ♥20SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." ~ Goethe ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥132SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥138SharePinTweet3 SharesWomen
"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥130SharePinTweet0 SharesLife QuotesWomen
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥133SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥134SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥146SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests" ~ George Santayana ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten" ~ George Santayana ♥21SharePinTweet1 Shares
"To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be." ~ George Santayana ♥40SharePinTweet0 SharesLove Quotes
"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." ~ George Santayana ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor." ~ George Santayana ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what." ~ George Santayana ♥35SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
