Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a bo...
If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman's hand; it is just as much the obedience of the ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. I...
Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.
Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.
At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing ...
Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.
What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.
Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.
Media is an assemblage of tools with which to expand an audience's conception of what "the world" is to such and extent that their own lives and capabilities seem utterly insignificant; a means of psychological warfare by which people are overloaded ...
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
