“I pray to all accomplished beings;
I pray you to extinguish the Five Poisonous Klesas.”
Milarepa (1052–1135) Tibetan yogi
Song to the Hunter
Televised sermon at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (25 June 2006), as quoted in "Falwell on the "moral pervert[s]" in Hollywood: "[Y]ou almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore" at Media Matters for America (27 June 2006)
“I pray to all accomplished beings;
I pray you to extinguish the Five Poisonous Klesas.”
Milarepa (1052–1135) Tibetan yogi
Song to the Hunter
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
Sex Slavery (1890)
Context: Why, when murder now is stalking in your streets, when dens of infamy are so thick within your city that competition has forced down the price of prostitution to the level of the wages of your starving shirt makers; when robbers sit in State and national Senate and House, when the boasted "bulwark of our liberties," the elective franchise, has become a U. S. dice-box, wherewith great gamblers play away your liberties; when debauchees of the worst type hold all your public offices and dine off the food of fools who support them, why, then, sits Moses Harman there within his prison cell? If he is so great a criminal, why is he not with the rest of the spawn of crime, dining at Delmonico's or enjoying a trip to Europe? If he is so bad a man, why in the name of wonder did he ever get in the penitentiary? … He looked, this obscenist looked with clear eyes into this ill-got thing you call morality, sealed with the seal of marriage, and saw in it the consummation of immorality, impurity, and injustice. He beheld every married woman what she is, a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, her master's commands, and serves her master's passion; who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation, not at her desire; who can control no property, not even her own body, without his consent, and from whose straining arms the children she bears may be torn at his pleasure, or willed away while they are yet unborn. It is said the English language has a sweeter word than any other, — home. But Moses Harman looked beneath the word and saw the fact, — a prison more horrible than that where he is sitting now, whose corridors radiate over all the earth, and with so many cells, that none may count them.
“Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know… It's just good entertainment.”
Tom Selleck (1945) American actor
Interview with American Western Magazine (January 2001).
“I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral”
Peter Pace (1945) 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Context: I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the armed forces are well served by saying through our policies that it's okay to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexual acts.
Howard Dean (1948) American political activist
Source: Take Back America 2005 conference, in Washington D.C. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/7/11437/00894, June 2, 2005
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover