David Benatar Quotes

As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

David Benatar

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• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • First
  • Stress

• There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Yourself
  • Look
  • Skin

• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Today
  • Struggle

• I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Music
  • Fan
  • Huge Fan

• And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Feelings
  • Nation
  • Feed

• Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Wife

• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • True
  • Words

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Even

• Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kids
  • See
  • Said

• If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • City
  • Yourself
  • Vegas

• I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Booked

• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Equal Pay

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• How'm I doing?

  

  Ed Koch
  • Doing

• After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Perfect

• For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nation

• I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Beast
  • Find Out
  • Brute

• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  

  Adam Parfrey
  • Planet
  • Outcome
  • Regime

• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Time
  • Power
  • Technology

• As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

  

  David Benatar
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Particularly