"Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!"

-- Camille Paglia

#Kindness Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Syrup Quotes

“Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.”
“The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.”
“The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.”
“No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.”

Source : "ABC's Barbara Walters' Interview With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. December 7, 2011.
“I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.”
“The kind need kindness most of all.”
“The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'”
“We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do....”

Source : "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". "Knowledge@Wharton show", knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

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