"Passions are generally roused from great conflict."

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Livy

#Passion Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.”
“I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.333, Vintage Canada
“It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.”
“I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.”
“Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.”
“The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.”
“No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.”
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”

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