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“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”
“Catholics, Louis Wirth found out first-hand, did not like what he had to say and were willing to use their political clout to prevent him from saying it in not only religious institutions but public institutions where they wielded local political power. Like Wilhelm Reich, another German Jewish Marxist immigrant, Wirth saw the Catholic Church in America in a different light from the way his WASP contemporaries did. As a result of growing up in an essentially Protestant country, they had long seen the Catholic Church, because of what had happened in England, as malign but essentially marginalized. Wirth’s view was much closer to Reich’s sense that the Catholic Church was the main competitor to Marxism for the mind of modern man, primarily because both systems were more all-encompassing than the essentially/laissez-faire English ideology.
Given his Marxist politics, his repudiation of traditional religious belief, and his assimilationist attitude toward ethnicity, it is not surprising that Wirth would be drawn to the internationalist cause during the days preceding World War II. Like his New York counterpart, Robert Moses, Wirth saw ethnicity as retrograde and something which was to be replaced by faith in things rational and enlightened. The irony, of course, is that in espousing the Enlightenment, Wirth was also espousing what one might call internationalist ethnocentrism, which is to say, the views of the dominant ethnic group in the United States at that time, the WASP East Coast establishment, as defined by the interests of the Rockefeller family, which had created the University of Chicago, Wirth’s employer, and the modern social sciences along with it.
By identifying with the cause of the Rockefeller family and the ethnic interests they represented, Wirth became a paradigm of the assimilation he would impose on his fellow Americans. This meant not repudiating ethnicity in the interest of class — although that’s what Wirth claimed he did — but rather exchanging one ethnic identification for another. Wirth was a paradigmatic example of what Digby Baltzell urged in his 1963 book The Protestant Establishment, the Jew who rose to a position of acceptance in the WASP ruling class by internalizing their cause and using the latest scientific advances (in the social sciences) to do their bidding. By doing what he did, Wirth endowed ethnicity with something less than ultimate value.”
Source: The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing
“Catholics say, anglicans ain't real christians.
Jews say, christians ain't the chosen people.
Hindus say, even a muslim's shadow ruins faith.
Muslims say, every non-muslim is an infidel.
Everybody thinks they're the chosen ones,
and everybody else is living in sin.
Only the brand of the bottle changes,
not the prejudice and bigotry within.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Catholics take their Church for granted,” he explained. “We even take our Lord in the tabernacle for granted. But you mustn’t be too hard on us. All children take their home and their father for granted. We are spoiled children.”
Source: Dan England and the Noonday Devil
“Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.”
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down
again.
Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are
doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding
perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't
be disappointed.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down
again.
Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are
doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding
perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't
be disappointed."
If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed
to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not
God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or
dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to
take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd
been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,
deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“Cathy le dijo que la tarea más importante en la vida era limpiar los propios actos, comprometerse totalmente con la realidad, poner toda la energía en el presente y hacerlo ahora, inmediatamente.”
Source: The Japanese Lover
“Cathy—look at me! Don’t turn your head and pretend you don’t know what I’m doing, what I’m saying! Look and see the torment you’ve put me in! How can I find anyone else, when you’ve been bred into my bones—and are part of my flesh? Your blood runs fast when mine does! Your eyes burn when mine do—don’t deny it!”
Source: Petals on the wind
“Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.”
Source: East of Eden
“Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’
‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the rules is willin’ t’ pay the price for it, and the price gets charged in full. Which you were, Lady Catharine. I saluted you for it then–at the family dinner table that night, in fact. My mother was infinitely more indisposed thereafter; tottered back t’ her bed cursin’ me for an ingrate. My father was none too pleased either. I salute you for it, again. Otherwise, breakin’ rules becomes the province of brats instead of heroes. Fastest way I can think t’ turn serious political affairs int’ a playpen. A civilized society needs a conscience, and conscience can’t be developed without martyrs—real ones—against which a nation can measure its crimes and sins.”
Source: Crown of Slaves
“Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.”
“Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Catmint: A flowering herb in the mint family with fronds of highly aromatic violet flowers whose fresh, lemony scent inspires serenity”
Source: The Memory Gardener
“Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.”
Source: The Tiger in the House
“Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”
“Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.”
“Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.”
“Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.”
“Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.”
“Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.”
“Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.”
“Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?”
“Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.”
“Cats and dogs are said to be sworn enemies, but I don't believe it. I think we get to choose our enemies, just like we choose our friends.”
Source: Under The Moon: A Catwoman Tale
“Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.”
“Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.”
“Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!”
Source: The Madonna of the Future
“Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.”
“Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.”
“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.”
“Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.”
Source: Cat is Watching
“Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”
“Cats are a waste of fur.”
“Cats are always elegant.”
“Cats are angels with fur.”
Source: The Art of Living Joyfully
“Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.”
“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it”
Source: Sexual Personae
“Cats are cats . . . the world over! These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something. -James Mackintosh Qwilleran”
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
Source: Vet in Harness
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.”
“Cats are designated friends.”
“Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?”
“Cats are evil and stroking them encourages their evil thoughts to climb up into your brain. Be wary of combining cat-stroking thinking, for the result can be catastrophic.”
Source: Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy