#rope

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. ↗

— Bjork

#anyone #big #church #compared #depression

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe. ↗

— Joseph Banks

#europe #knows #may #new #new south wales

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#became #because #europe #exploited #know

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#enemy #fire #gave #mccarthy #moment

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. ↗

— Dave Davies

#compassion #issues #leaders #love #more

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#expression #geographical #speaks #whoever #wrong

He asked himself whether it could be that he was in love with her, and then hoped he was not; hoped it not so much for his own sake as for that of the amatory passion itself. If this was love, love had been overrated. ↗

— Henry James

#love #love

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#materialism #possessions #property #values #men

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you From entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines ("Zone") ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#billboard #catalogs #church #city #confession

[T]he power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did murder their fellow creatures, men, and after plunder or steal away their land, and left this land successively to you, their children. And therefore, though you did not kill or thieve, yet you hold that cursed thing in your hand by the power of the sword; and so you justify the wicked deeds of your fathers, and that sin of your father shall be visited upon the head of you and your children to the third and fourth generation, and longer too, till your bloody and thieving power be rooted out of the land. ↗

— Winstanley

#theft #men