"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault."

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Robert Conquest

#Commitment Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Profound Quotes

“The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.”
“The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.”
“To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.”
“I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.”
“Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.”
“Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.”
“Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”
“I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.”

Source : "John Banville: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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