Two Quotes - Page 79

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.

I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.

It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

There's two ways you can defeat your opponent, number one, is you can defeat 'em outright, or number two, you can just demoralize them.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.

People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.