Quotes About Acceptance

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

A civilization', he once declared, 'is to be judged by its treatment of minorities.

For as I may be saved by God above, I never used discretion when in love But ever followed on my appetite, Whether the lad was short, long, black or white. Little I cared, if he was fond of me, How poor he was, or what his rank might be.

When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.

for all the lip service that the social justice warriors give to 'diversity,' they don't actually care about one of the most fundamental forms of diversity – neurodiversity.

But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.

The most frequent expression in the Muslim world is inshallah, if God wills. It removes all guilt: blame it on Allah. If the oasis dries up and blows away, it was Allah's will. If you get caught sleeping with your brother's wife, it was Allah's will. Getting your hand or your cock or your head chopped off in reprisal is Allah's will, too.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.

Dac? nu eÈ™ti în stare s? preÈ›uieÈ™ti ceea ce ai, atunci caut? s? ai ceea ce eÈ™ti în stare s? preÈ›uieÈ™ti.

It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For

He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.

It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

Life is tough, then you die.

We're all fucked. It helps to remember this.

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

We're all fucked. It helps to remember that.

Personally I would never want to be a member of any group where you either have to wear a hat, or you can't wear a hat.