She handed me my Harlot Red lipstick. Okay, it was called Cherry Berry, but they’d have to rename it after the way I’d behaved last night.
– Susan Hatler: License to date
Den store ubalance
At nogle mennesker vågner af sig selv om morgenen og er friske, er simpelthen den største urimelighed. Der kan man tale om chanceulighed.
– Jakob Mark: Fartblind
Den urokkelige hvisken
Instant messaging combines the ephemeral nature of a whisper, with the incriminating permanence of a stone tablet. Worst of both worlds in that sense.
Betændt
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
– W.H. Auden: A Certain World
Godt for ondt
I am not scared of hell. It is just heaven for bad people.
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
I did not buy you flowers
or chocolates
or jewelry
or anything risqué
my apologies
but as we are strangers
it would have been odd
had I expressed affection
through such gifts
but when you see me
please understand
that my masked face
is my way of telling you
that you are loved.
Fra Plague Poems på Mastodon – link til opslag
Det findes i fællesskab
Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty.
[…]
[Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.
– Yonatan Zunger: Tolerance is not a moral precept
Hold krudtet tørt
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
– Stephen Hawking
I frihedens næve
There is just something so grating about seeing someone who isn’t the target of oppression explain how it makes them feel freer.
– Sarah McLaughlin på Mastodon (link med kontekst)
Men det var dengang – måske
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
– R.H. Tawney, ‘Religion and the Rise of Capitalism’ (1926)