Our mid-monthly round up of recently encountered quotes, inspirational, educational and amusing.
If porn is inherently & in all contexts destructive, then SEX is inherently & in all contexts destructive.
[Emily Nagoski]
Most people can’t fathom why naturist families have such positive, wholesome relationships. Children from clothes free families grow up with relatively few body confidence issues.
[British Naturism]
Save the Earth; don’t give birth. This is the really radical ecological message people aren’t willing to face: the most damaging thing you can do environmentally is breed.
[Mark Walsh & Dane Burman quoted on Facebook]
It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.
[Bill Murray]
I sympathise a little with Hunt [UK Health Secretary] — he was born into military aristocracy, a cousin of the Queen, went to Charterhouse, then Oxford, then into PR: trying to get him to understand the life of an overworked student nurse is like trying to get an Amazonian tree frog to understand the plot of Blade Runner. Hunt doesn’t understand the need to pay doctors — he’s part of a ruling class that doesn’t understand that the desire to cut someone open and rearrange their internal organs can come from a desire to help others, and not just because of insanity caused by hereditary syphilis.
[Frankie Boyle]
You go through life blind but with the delusion of sight. Try not to be fooled by what you think you see & what other people think they see.
[Brad Warner on Twitter]
The proposals the Secretary of State outlined did not appear to depart significantly from the Human Rights Act — we note in particular that all the rights contained within the ECHR are likely to be affirmed in any British Bill of Rights. His evidence left us unsure why a British Bill of Rights was really necessary.
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If a Bill of Rights is not intended to change significantly the protection of human rights in the UK, we recommend the Government give careful thought before proceeding with this policy.
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Given the seemingly limited aims of the proposed Bill of Rights, the Government should give careful consideration to whether, in the words of the Secretary of State, it means unravelling “the constitutional knitting for very little”. If for no other reason, the possible constitutional disruption involving the devolved administrations should weigh against proceeding with this reform.
[House of Lords European Union Select Committee; Report The UK, the EU and a British Bill of Rights; May 2016]
To bring about structural change, lasting change, awareness is not enough. It requires changes in law, changes in custom … You consolidate your gains and then you move on to the next fight from a stronger position.
[Barrack Obama]
Earl Cathcart: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, has twice mentioned weights and measures authorities enforcing this [tobacco regulations] in a heavy-handed or a light-touch way. Can the Minister comment on which he thinks they will do?
Lord Prior [the Minister]: I certainly hope that enforcement will be more Italian than traditionally British, if I may put it that way.
[House of Lords debate on the new Tobacco Regulations from the EU]
Wind chimes are made from the metallic bones of robots that tried to overthrow us. Hang them outside your house as a warning to the others.
When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid.
Not every day is a good day,
live anyway.
Not everyone tells the truth,
trust anyway.
Not everyone will love you back,
love anyway.
Not every game will be fair,
play anyway.
We act as if the Earth was a craft ball someone told us to bedazzle.
[Rob R Dunn]