Eve Ensler Quotes

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

Eve Ensler

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• Charity
• Despise

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• I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Reason
  • Right

• Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • Take
  • Trees

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • American
  • Justice

• I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Never
  • Now

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.

  

  Vasily Grossman

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Mom

• All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Time
  • Good
  • Respect

• The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

  

  Kehlani
  • Up
  • Giving

• That's what we're all about: delivering a really comfortable VR experience that everybody can enjoy and afford.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • Experience

• Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

  

  James Stephens
  • Women

• You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • People

• If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters.

  

  Brett Young
  • World
  • Happy

• Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Writing
  • Mind

• We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

  

  Al Barr
  • Singing
  • Grateful
  • We Do

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Charity

• Thou spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, Thou Lust! Cry aloud! Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun! Thou, the Saviour! Silence! Give me Thy Secret! Give me suck, Thou Phallus, Thou Sun! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Thou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, Most High!

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • High
  • Father
  • Spiritual

• Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Silence
  • Illness
  • Mortal

• God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Silence
  • Charity
  • Despise