"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."

Society, Meeting

24

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."

Exlpore more Society quotes

"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Society, Loneliness, World, Isolation

"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

John Green, American Author

Society, Absence, Media, Reality, Celebrity

"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Truth, Power, Regret, Today

"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Violence, Terrorism, Conformity

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

Society, Feminism, Expression, Art, Power

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Society, Purity, Values, Competition, Selfishness

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Society, Judgment, Behavior, Truth, Humanity

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Woman, Mother, Sister, Daughter

"And Englishmen like posing as gods."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Society, Ego, Power, Deception, Humanity

Explore more quotes by Djuna Barnes

"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."

Time

"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."

Man

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."

Life

"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."

Society

"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."

Life

"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."

Love

"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind."

Mind

24

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Society quotes

"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

"And Englishmen like posing as gods."

Explore more quotes by Djuna Barnes

"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."

"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."

"What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?"

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."

"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties."

"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."

"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."

"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."

"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind."