Quotes

G thru I

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." - Indira Gandhi

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"If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?" - Judy Garland

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"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you." - Shakti Gawain

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"I ascertain that I'm homosexual. OK. That's no cause for alarm. How and why are idle questions - a little like my wanting to know why my eyes are green." - Jean Genet

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"We are dealing with a behavior trait which is clearly only partially genetic. The effect of a single gene in a complex trait changes the probability of showing the trait by only a small amount. Even identical twins of gay men are not gay about half the time. I would not expect prenatal genetic tests for a complex adult behavior to be offered clinically during our lifetime." -- Dr. Elliot S. Gershon, NIH Reseacher

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"I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

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"It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not." - Andre Gide (French writer)

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"The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur; and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest griefs because they have had the profoundest sympathies." - Henry Giles

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"I've always been openly gay. It would never occur to me to behave otherwise." - Eric Michael Gillet, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus Ringmaster

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"Transsexual dressing is a gay contribution to the realization that we're not a hundred percent masculine or feminine, but a mixture of hormones." - Allen Ginsberg

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"Propaganda... must always be essentially simple and repetitious. In the long run, only he will achieve basic results in influencing public opinion who is able to reduce problems to the simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals." - from the diary of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, entry dated January 29, 1942

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"I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior." - Social activist Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

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"It’s time America realized that there was no gay exemption in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence. Job discrimination against gays – or anybody else – is contrary to each of these founding principles." - Barry Goldwater, former Republican presidential candidate and Senator from Arizona, 1994

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"Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative." - Barry Goldwater, U.S. politician (from a speech in 1981)

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We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential. -- Ellen Goodman

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"The same people who insist that the Earth is 6,000 years old, despite science showing otherwise, are insisting that gays can be converted into straights despite the fact that the mental health professional organizations oppose conversion therapy." - Psychotherapist Jim Green in The Observer

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TODAY'S PRIDELET - February 26 This day in 1991, asked why there so few gay characters in cartoons, "Simpsons" and "Life In Hell" cartoonist Matt Groening suggests "I think people are very unnerved by bisexuality in our culture -- unless it's about teasing, unless it's about withholding sex or implying homosexuality with the underlying message being 'Ha-ha, I'm not.' There's virulent homophobia in our culture. Cartoonist deal with exaggerated caricatures. Comics are seen as a kiddie medium, and there is a little history of dealing with taboo in comic strips. For example, in daily strips you used to not be able to show snakes. Why? Hmmm. Let me think. Snakes: phallic. And so on. Things are loosening up a little bit. As far as I know, Akbar and Jeff (from 'Life in Hell') are the only gay couple in comics. They may dance with a woman or two. But I don't think they are going to shape up."

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"Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult." - [last words of] Edmund Gwenn (1875-1959) was an English stage actor, originally discovered by George Bernard Shaw, who became a Hollywood star in his middle age. Twice nominated for an Academy Award, he won an Oscar as the Best Supporting Actor in Miracle on 34th Street in his most remembered role as Santa Claus. Gwenn continued acting well until his eighties.

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"Folks, I gotta tell you something, and it ain't necessarily true, but I mean it." - R.H. [? - I don't know who RH is, but I love this quote!]

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Quote of the day: I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" -- to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients." - psychoanalyst Ernst Van Den Haag

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"#163. The right wing loves to write letters. So, we need to balance their exhuberance. Include poliiticians on your letter writing list, right next to Mom and Aunt Edna." - Ken Hanes, in The Gay Guy's Guide to Life

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"I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain. The strength of which depends on my own contributions, as well as the contributions of those before and after me.... When I am aware of this unity, and refuse to let my self-doubt and lack of self-confidence interfere, it is one of the most wonderful feelings I've ever experienced. I am a necessary part of an important search to which there is no end." - Keith Haring (Artist)

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TODAY'S PRIDELET - March 20
On this day in 1987, pop artist Keith Haring writes in his journal: "I am quite aware of the chance that I have or will have AIDS. The odds are very great and, in fact, the symptoms already exist. My friends are dropping like flies and I know in my heart it is only divine intervention that has kept me alive this long. I don't know If I have five months or five years, but I know my days are numbered. This is why my activities and projects are so important now. To do as much as possible as quickly as possible. I'm sure that what will live on after I die is important enough to make sacrifices of my personal luxury and leisure time now. Work is all I have and art is more important than life."

"Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe." - Jean Harlow, actress

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"Wyoming is the Equality state because it was the first one to give women the right to vote. Then again it was the last progressive thing they did." - Sirius OutQ radio host Derek Hartley

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YOUR QUOTE OF THE DAY: "When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand , our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness." - Harry Hay
[COPYRIGHT & CREDIT Pridelets are copyright © 2002 Tom Heald. Thanks to Aaron's Gay Info.]

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"Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me." - Hegel, Georg Wilhelm (1770-1831 ~ last words) Hegel was a German philosopher whose works, which had a major influence upon Marxism, are notorious for their obscurity.

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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which would have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere. - Sir Arthur Helps

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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps

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1. "What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
2. "The day of individual happiness has passed."
3. "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
4. "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
5. "The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one."
--- Adolf Hitler

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"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." - Billie Holiday (Lady Day)

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Hold fast to your dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

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In an interview toward the end of his life, Aldous Huxley was asked, "Dr. Huxley, perhaps more than anyone else in the world, you have studied all the great religions and spiritual traditions; can you summarize for us what you feel you have learned?" Huxley replied, "I think just to be a bit kinder." - [Quoted in "It's A Meaningful Life," by Bo Lozoff]

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"If one kid coming out can say to their parents, 'Hey, you know the woman who sang At Seventeen, she's gay too,' then I have achieved something good." - Janis Ian to the Adelaide, Australia, gay newspaper Blaze, April 6, 2001.

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"Do you honestly think Elton [John] could have managed to get on the Grammy's without a stunt like that [the duet with Eminem]?" - Singer Janis Ian in same interview as above quote.

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty of final success, and bides his time until the onset of reassuring odds. -- I Ching

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"Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer." - R.G. Ingersoll

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"It's important to collect good enemies as you go along." - Molly Ivins

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