"The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Joan Wallach Scott

#Responsibility Quotes #Common Quotes #Reciprocity Quotes

“If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.”

Source : "The Knox Brothers". Book by Penelope Fitzgerald, Ch. IV, 1977.
“Forget about style; worry about results.”
“The theater is the thing I love doing most.”
“Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.”

Source : William George Jordan (1913). “The Power of Truth”
“It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.”
“Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.”

Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.
“I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.”
“A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.”

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