Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny. ' - Traveller
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates
The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him. . . . Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.
Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.