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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?


Christopher Hitchens


#child-abuse #children #feminism #hell #religion

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.


Rob Bell


#atheism #ideas #organized-religion #religion #religion

Art always springs from a surplus of life


Marty Rubin


#art #excess #art

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.


Henry Hazlitt


#power-of-words #vocabulary #words #science

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.


Alberto Manguel


#vocabulary #words #technology

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.


John Green


#joh-green #nerdfighters #remember

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.


Milan Kundera


#nostalgia #vocabulary #suffering

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#criticism #memory #verbal-abuse #words #ignorance

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.


Bell Hooks


#commitment #love #men #relationships #women

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.


E.M. Delafield


#abuse