Demolishes Basement Quotes

#1. No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Edward Said

#2. Don't fucking swear," Ronan said.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I found my voice in books ...

James Earl Jones

#4. The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

William Penn

#6. We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

Beck

#7. Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. The difference between a signature and an autograph is that the second one has higher face value on a plain paper than the first one even on a cheque.

Vikrmn

#9. If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Raymond Queneau