Which Pins and Buttons

Description: Any which way but loose

Description: Kill your masters. Eat the rich. Destroy that which destroys you.

Description: Every Which Way But Loose

Description: Henrik Ibsen quote: A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

Description: Charles Pierre Baudelaire: The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Description: Thomas Paine quote: This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Description: Henrik Ibsen quote: A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

Description: T. E. Lawrence quote: He feared his maturity as it grew upon him, with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Description: Louisa May Alcott portrait and quote: I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Description: A quote from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath": "I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."

Description: Charles Darwin quote: Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts, which in us would be called moral;

Description: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quote: The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

Description: Thomas Paine quote: This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Description: Jules Verne quote: Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.

Description: Bob Dylan - Which Way The Wind Blows

Description: Bertolt Brecht portrait and quote: The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Description: T. E. Lawrence quote: Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

Description: Jack Kerouac quote: I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. All of it inside endless and beginningless emptiness.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Description: Hans Christian Andersen quote: If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

Description: Richard Wright quote: I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

Description: E. E. Cummings: And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone....”

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

Description: Washington Irving quote: “There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

Description: E.M. Forster quote: Life is a public performance on the violin in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: The future is of our own making — and (for me) the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development, that maturing of our consciousness which should open our eyes to that truth.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

Description: John Locke quote: The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions...

Description: George Santayana quote: What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art.

Description: Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.