purplerabbits

...in your personal conduct, when you are asked to chose between a personal action which causes suffering and a hypothetical evil which will result if you refuse, chose the hypothetical evil. Anything I agree to will be done. I am responsible for it. If I drop this atom bomb, I shall obliterate Hiroshima. If I refuse, the inhabitants of Hiroshima may set up a tyranny. I choose the tyranny, not because I am prepared to compromise with it, but because its creation will depend on other people's judgement, not mine, and I may be being deceived.
Alex Comfort

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
Dorothy L Sayers

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
Karl Marx