Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Douglas AdamsTag: humor science-fiction social-commentary british thumb towel
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris MurdochTag: scifi social-commentary
Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences.
Thomas MannTag: society social-commentary
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: politics social-commentary sf
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
Ilona AndrewsTag: humor social-commentary fire picket-fence
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
Sherman AlexieTag: philosophy social-commentary racial-politics
A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
Eric SchlosserTag: social-commentary observation
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
Steven PressfieldTag: political-philosophy social-commentary
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.
H.L. MenckenTag: certainty social-commentary tolerance skepticism
What the hell is this stuff?" he muttered, frowning at the oily spot on the linen cloth. "Pearlman slathered it on me this morning."
"It's macassar oil. Gentlemen use it to keep their hair neat. Nicholas used it," she added pointedly.
"Well, tomorrow he's giving it up. I smell like a rotten apple."
"You do not. And I think it looks rather nice."
He sent her an incredulous look. "I look like an otter. And everything I put my head against gets greasy."
"That's why someone invented the antimacassar," she told him, almost smiling.
"The-aha!" He laughed as he made the connection. "Of course. First they invent something stupid, then something ugly to make up for it. We live in a wondrous age, Annie.
Tag: humor social-commentary victorian-era
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