Evaluation of the field post letters up until now has shown without doubt that not only German Army commanders had given up the orders, the commissar order to murder, but that the simple soldiers were willing to execute these orders because of their ingrained hatred. The image of the Jewish Bolshevist foe was widespread. The [...]
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Contempt
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The tribal psychology of political sacredness
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The (f)art of the blurb
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Librarian Porn
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Avi Steinberg theparisreview Porn books and librarians have always had a passionate, mutually defining relationship—it was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who coined the word pornography. So it comes as no surprise that the sexy librarian, a fixture of the pornographic imagination, is most at home in books. Each [...]
“There can never be anything gay about Star Wars, ever.”
Posted in Quotes, tagged game star wars, homosexual activists, Quotes, star wars game, star wars the old republic, star wars universe on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists! Hello, I’m Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. In a galaxy not so far far away, Star Wars gamers have already gone to the dark side. The new video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, [...]
Aristocratic affability
Posted in Quotes, tagged Marcel Proust, Quotes, sodom and gomorrah on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
. . . . I took care not to interpret her words in the sense that I had been too modest. I was beginning to learn the exact value of the language, spoken or mute, of aristocratic affability, an affability that is happy to shed balm upon the sense of inferiority of those towards whom [...]
Emotional accounting
Posted in Quotes, tagged Marcel Proust, Quotes, sodom and gomorrah on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There is no need, in accounting for nine out of ten of the opinions that we hold about other people, to go so far as crossed love or exclusion from public office. Our judgment remains uncertain: the withholding or bestowal of an invitation determines it. – Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
Proustian period
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
[T]he defects of a mere acquaintance, and even of a friend, are to us real poisons, against which we are fortunately immunised. But, without applying any standard of scientific comparison and talking of anaphylaxis, we may say that, at the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but [...]
Give me your hands, because you’re wonderful/Oh, give me your hands
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One puts oneself through such psychological damage in trying to avoid the threat of insanity. You start to approach the very thing you’re afraid of. . . . – David Bowie David derived comfort from leaving off his clothes, sometimes sitting cross-legged on the floor encircled by blaring hi-fi speakers, sometimes loping around the flat [...]
A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Steak is expensive, dear, and you’ll not get it often, but as this is our first real dinner in our own home, I had to celebrate. I bought enough for two meals, because buying steak for one meal for two people is beyond any modest purse! So you’ll meet that steak again tomorrow, but I [...]
Hovering between me and her name
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
. . . Such is the cowardice of society people. That of a lady who came to greet me by my name, was greater still. I tried to recall hers as I talked to her; I remembered quite well having met her at dinner, and could remember things that she had said. But my attention, [...]
Determined to do wrong
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The power of disappointing them, it was true, must always be hers. But that was not enough: for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of anything better from them. – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Be American
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fountain of bacon
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Religion is like a penis
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
