"Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?"

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Source : "Toll the Hounds (". Book by Steven Erikson, 2008.

Steven Erikson

#Heart Quotes #Views Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.”
“When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.”
“I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs and lows of those challenges - to have really experienced that unsettling place where ambition crosses over into something else entirely.”
“When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.”
“In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.”
“But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”

Source : Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.
“It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.”
“We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.”

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