In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Achilles zu Patrokles gehabt zu haben. Und Königin Olympias von Makedonien (eine der mächtigsten Frauen der Antike, die angeblich ihren Mann ermorden ließ) hatte offenbar nichts dagegen, als ihr Sohn Alexander der Große seinen Geliebten Hephaestion zum Essen nach Hause brachte.


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TIMOTHY NOAH
I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
TIMOTHY NOAH
The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
NOAH WEBSTER
I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't inte...
TREVOR NOAH
I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn'...
TREVOR NOAH
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
TIMOTHY NOAH
What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix...
TREVOR NOAH
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not dif...
NOAH FELDMAN
Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autono...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.
NOAH HAWLEY
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ...
TREVOR NOAH
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. Bu...
TREVOR NOAH
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...
NOAH WEBSTER
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where ...
NOAH HAWLEY
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal governmen...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional l...
TIMOTHY NOAH
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is t...
NOAH CICERO
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less r...
NOAH FELDMAN
The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.
NOAH HAWLEY
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientist...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests,...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to...
NOAH FELDMAN
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not anal...
NOAH BAUMBACH
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call cent...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH
Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close fri...
NOAH BAUMBACH
One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ...
TREVOR NOAH
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security i...
TIMOTHY NOAH
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republi...
NOAH FELDMAN
To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme C...
NOAH FELDMAN
The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people wer...
NOAH FELDMAN
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - inclu...
NOAH FELDMAN
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction...
TREVOR NOAH
I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
NOAH TAYLOR
Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some s...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events...
NOAH BAUMBACH
America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of d...
TREVOR NOAH
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
NOAH FELDMAN
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to govern...
TIMOTHY NOAH
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ...
JOAKIM NOAH
I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ...
TREVOR NOAH
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
TIMOTHY NOAH
We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbre...
NOAH COWAN
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Eve...
NOAH FELDMAN
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, '...
TREVOR NOAH
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH
We flew to Miami and then chartered a plane here to be on time. I'm really excited, I'm proud of him...
YANNICK NOAH
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other...
NOAH BAUMBACH
It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writ...
NOAH HAWLEY
Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
TIMOTHY NOAH
As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m...
NOAH BAUMBACH
I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
NOAH HATHAWAY
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, y...
NOAH EMMERICH
So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.
NOAH HATHAWAY
I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. ...
TREVOR NOAH
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
TIMOTHY NOAH
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick...
NOAH BAUMBACH
The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
TIMOTHY NOAH
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is jus...
TIMOTHY NOAH
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
NOAH BAUMBACH
Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
NOAH HATHAWAY
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism...
NOAH FELDMAN
Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her wh...
NOAH HAWLEY
I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they cro...
NOAH HAWLEY
In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the...
NOAH HAWLEY
'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that...
NOAH HAWLEY
The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it...
NOAH HAWLEY
I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru...
NOAH HAWLEY
'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fictio...
NOAH HAWLEY
The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provide...
NOAH FELDMAN
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar an...
NOAH WYLE
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
This is the SEC. We've got to be ready at all times. We've got to be on edge. It's unacceptable.
JOAKIM NOAH
We like to say it's acoustic driven rock.
NOAH SMITH
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
TIMOTHY NOAH
Self-realization is attained only when we comprehend the difference between the things we could own ...
NELSON NOAH
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
TIMOTHY NOAH