“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.” PeopleKnowsMenWantShouldMindWellsMayIdeasMightFearExistenceHellAtheismConsciousConcernedScientistUniversalRageBurningGood GodConscious Mind Author:Luther Burbank
“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.” MenHas BeensSelfWholeEyeAnimalRaceAudienceDogPositionGrewConsciousCatIndependenceSlaveryRagePreservesGentlemanConsiderationAffectedAppetiteHuntingLeisurePlatesBetrayedSelf ConsciousRenunciationSatellites Book:Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21 Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.” PeopleTryingTwoFunSexWalksKnownSawsFashionStyleChangedGayConsciousRageLike MeContinents Author:Mae West
“The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.” MenNeedsHas BeensRealityMightDealsEconomyConsciousConceptsEmptyResponseAncientStupidityRageAvoidanceAncient HistoryChanging Everything Author:Stephen Marche
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” CountryLiteratureConsciousRageAfrican American Author:James A. Baldwin