„Who taught us corruption? I believe it was you, frankly… It's an import.“
— Mobutu Sésé Seko President of Zaïre 1930 - 1997
Attributed, In an interview with a French reporter, as featured in "Mobutu: King of Zaire."
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„I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this—never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be—usually is, in fact—a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.“
— Alexander Fleming Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and sexiest man 1881 - 1955
biographyonline.net http://www.biographyonline.net/scientists/alex-fleming.html, Lecture at Harvard University. Quoted in Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell, Molecular Cloning (2001), Vol. 1, 153.
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„The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubims! And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die; But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.“
— Thomas Traherne English poet 1637 - 1674
Centuries of Meditations, Third Century, sect. 3.
„There are one or two rules of thumb which are useful in distinguishing sadism from exciting adventure in the comics. Threat of torture is harmless, but when the torture it’s self is shown it becomes sadism. When a lovely heroine is show bound to the stake, comics followers are sure that the rescue will arrive just in the nick of time. The readers wish is to save the girl, not to see her suffer. A bound or chained person does not suffer even embarrassment in the comics, and the reader, therefore is not being taught to enjoy suffering.“
— William Moulton Marston American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writer 1893 - 1947
As quoted in Olive Richard Bryne's, "Don't laugh at the comics" Family Circle, Oct 25, 1940.
„As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.“
— H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
„We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.“
— Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk First Czechoslovak president 1850 - 1937
„Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.“
— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005
„Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.“
— Andrea Dworkin Feminist writer 1946 - 2005
Intercourse (1987), Context: But the hatred of women is a source of sexual pleasure for men in its own right. Intercourse appears to be the expression of that contempt in pure form, in the form of a sexed hierarchy; it requires no passion or heart because it is power without invention articulating the arrogance of those who do the fucking. Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women; but that contempt can turn gothic and express itself in many sexual and sadistic practices that eschew intercourse per se. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
Chapter 7
„To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!“
— José Rizal, Noli Me Tángere, Noli Me Tángere
„I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
