#rena

The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization ↗

— Viktor Vijay Kumar

#europe #india #renaissance #west #art

A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by fools. ↗

— Thucydides

#well-roundedness #law

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole. ↗

— Courtney Schafer

#horse-shoes #life-and-living #life

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive. ↗

— Phil Hartman

#competitive #found #i #less #much

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #arena #bad #been #believed

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#grenades #hand #having #i #into

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #interest #morals #never #politics

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#comfortable #gets #going #i #like

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#borrowing #energy #excite #excited #get

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#arena #class #competitive #diversity #fact