Mar > Mar's Quotes

“What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“I only care about me and about why I don't care about anybody else.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

“Feelings erode in here. Memories wear off. All that’s left are facts without the emotion that once accompanied them. I don’t cry in this place. There isn’t room enough for the heart to move. There are no winds to rustle it. Silence here is not the absence of sound, but the presence of a dense, unshakable stillness. Like dark matter in space, silence here is a living force that slides into all corners and seams. I have come to depend on it.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“Fall in love if you must, but remember cruelty always has a dick.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“This was where I belonged, but so much of me was still scattered elsewhere.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“What's so noble about being dead?”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“It will be you—-you who urge us on to battle you who incite us against ourselves you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler you who would have one man who works kill another man who works you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“We lived in a golden age, but it was still a hell. Even in that hell, we created small, beautiful moments that made us feel alive again.”
― Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

“Anytime I felt hopeless or lost, I went to one of those brothers and asked to look out their window. I said to the sea, 'Nice to see you again, my friend. People change, but you never do.”
― Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

“What, for example, could be more calculated to produce brutal wife-beaters than long practice of savage cruelty towards the other animals?"
-Edith Ward”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

“If the wartime killing of human beings is used to establish the legitimacy of meat eating, then challenging meat eating challenges a world at war.”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

“In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that are more elusive to pinpoint as they are so deeply embedded within our culture. My”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory