A Quotes
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“All patriarchal systems subscribe to a set of moral norms. These can be: men should be bread winners, women should be stay-at-home mums; men should behave like gentlemen, women should not put out; men should be strong and not cry and so forth. Many mistakenly believe that these rules are patriarchal, but their moral rules themselves do not necessarily constitute oppression - had they really been applied. Differing roles are not in and of themselves a sign of oppression. What actually characterises patriarchal systems is the fact that men are free to break the rules, while women are punished both when they comply and when they resist.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“All patriarchies, in fact, only succeeded by colonizing, indeed cannibalizing the forms, emblems and sacred objects of the Goddess they were purporting to root out. Much recent theological scholarship has been devoted to recovering what in ages past every schoolgirl knew: that the Great Goddess in her threefold incarnation (maiden, mother and wisewoman) lies behind the Christian trinity, that her immature aspect of moon maiden became the Virgin Mary, and so on.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.”
“All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!”
“All pauses in space,
a violent compression of meaning
in an instant within the meaningless.”
Source: In the Next Galaxy
“All peace ends from talking about others. All peace starts from stop talking about others. So choose peace.”
“All peace, joy, and love that we seek outside of ourselves, are right within us.”
“All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.”
“All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.”
Source: My Booky Wook
“All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'”
“All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion. The lamps are different, But the Light is the same.”
Source: The Rumi Collection
“All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.”
“All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.”
“All people are a single nation.”
“All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe that we are living out our lives as best we can, and that we have our own sphere of influence which exists of both friends and enemies. They in turn have their own friends and enemies with whom they interact. That is a given. But we, each of us, tend to put ourselves ahead of others because we believe that we are significant. We must attend to our own needs, desires, wants, and aspirations, because each of us is our own greatest priority. No one else cares for us as much as we do, no one else can exist in our skin. We think we're important. It is where our sense of self-worth comes up, where our egos reside, where "we" are. And we believe that each of our lives means something.”
Source: Sir Apropos of Nothing
“All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.”
“All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.”
“All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.”
“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”
Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
“All people are enslaved by something.”
“All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.”
“All people are equal, regardless of who they are.
All life is living, regardless of how we perceive it.
All of man's falsehoods, regardless of when they were uttered are not equal to one grain of truth.”
“All people are half actors.”
“All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”
“All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.”
“All people are most credulous when they are most happy.”
Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
“All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka”
“All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.”
“All people are special, and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time more special than another. Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from responsibility for hearing God's message, much less receiving it (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else's word for everything.”
“All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.”
Source: My Quest for Beauty
“All people are the same; only their habits differ.”
“All people are valuable, and there is so much that can only be learned by meeting many people.”
“All people believe their suffering is greater than others.”
Source: how to save your own life
“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.”
Source: Am I Bad? Recovering from Abuse
“All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.”
“All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.”
“All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.”
“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”
“All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.”
“All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).”
“All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person’s sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.”
“All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.”
“All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.”
“All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.”
Source: Mark Twain's notebook
“All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...”
“All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games.”
“All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.”
Source: Snow Crash