Revékka Soúzan Smarágdi Grimsbly

“The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately erect monuments and memorials, lest we forget...”
― John Dewey, How We Think

“You see the whole culture (watching television)... Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers... beauty contests, the talk show... Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers... third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus... and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

“Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless-patient as thou art,
Commit’st thy anointed body to the cure
Of those physicians that first wounded thee.
A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head,
And yet encagèd in so small a verge,
The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Of Pride. And though it be so that no man can accurately tell the number of the twigs and the evils that come from Pride, yet will I show you a part of them, as you shall understand. There is Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contempt, Arrogance, Impudence, Swelling of Heart, Insolence, Elation, Impatience, Haughtiness, Presumption, Irreverence, Obstinacy, Vainglory, and many another twig that I can not declare.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales