family

"Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman."

"In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children ar…"

"Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?"

"Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!"

"..ambition to surpass Impressionism, destroying the subject's unity of time and place.. .. things that apparently had nothing to do with it, but that in reality were linked to it in my imagination, in…"

"Though we had a sheltered life in the palace, Daddy brought us up the same way any father would bring up his children."

"While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children…"

"We never had any silk sheets in our family..."

"There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children."

"Such a scene as the division of last Tuesday I never saw, and never expect to see again. ... It was like seeing Caesar stabbed in the Senate House, or seeing Oliver taking the mace from the table; a s…"

"I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him!"

"Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!"

"I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess."

"did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would ge…"

"The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every mutilation of a human being, physical or moral. He loathes wars, executions and imprisonments, the grinding down of the work…"

"What a fucking idiot."

"Jonathan Tropper's personal website"

"You have to blow off your family. You have to blow off comfort. You have to blow off money.... You have to blow off your ego. You have to blow off everything except your guitar."

"In fact, the chief end of a woman in China is not to live for herself, or for society; not to be a reformer or to be president of the woman's natural feet Society; not to live even as a saint or to do…"

"We seem to be unable to allow ourselves the dignity of engaging in this sort of straightforward reconsideration of our acts. After all, questioning is the great strength of democracy; the ability to d…"