"When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase."

-- Marina Warner

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“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”

Source : Poems (1963 ed.) "Greater Love"
“The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.”

Source : "I will survive". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.
“Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug”

Source : J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons
“It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.”
“I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.”
“The best time to leave a party is when the partyâ€™s just beginning. Thereâ€™s no drink that kills except the drink that you didnâ€™t want to take, as the saying goes, and thereâ€™s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.”
“I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament”
“I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.”

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