If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means... of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a mat...erial environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wa...ke up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You use the phrase "brutal Rebels." Don't be cheated in that way. There are enough "brutal Rebels" no doubt, but we have brutal of...ficers and men too. I have had men brutally treated by our own officers on this raid [to Lynchburg, Va.]. And there are plenty of humane Rebels. I have seen a good deal of it on this trip. War is a cruel business and there is brutality in it on all sides, but it is very idle to get up anxiety on account of any supposed peculiar cruelty on the part of Rebels. Keepers of prisons in Cincinnati, as well as in Danville, are hard-hearted and cruel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be perfectly, brutally honest, those of us who are still carrying diaper everywhere we go are not at our most scintillating tim...e of life....We need to remember that at one time in our lives, we all had senses of humor and knew things that were going on in the world. And if we just keep our social networks open, there will be people ready to listen when we once again have intelligent things to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being the sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine sanctities, they were themselves too... diffident and shy. They could easier deny themselves than incur any reproach from a woman; for a woman was like their mother, and they were full of the sense of their mother. They preferred themselves to suffer the misery of celibacy, rather than risk the other person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambus...hed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations tha...t we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're a woman who's been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you'll have to stay in... the garage all night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »