"He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions."

-- Alice Miller

#Self Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.”
“The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?”
“My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.”

Source : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.
“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”
“It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kiera Cass from Oct 21, 2012
“If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.”

Source : U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 09, 2006.
“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
“Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.”

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